I posted the following invitation on the UPenn English Department's email list in 2003 and was contacted by women with impairments who have contributed to the project.
I invite you to contribute to a book that will examine the way physical disability is shown and used in children's fiction. The books will be those written specifically for, and read by, girls in the twentieth century. It is hoped that most, or all, of the contributors will be disabled women, thus giving a unique slant to the publication that will be applying the social model of disability to the subject. This will bring individual perspectives to the book and will highlight the contributor's opinions about the portrayals of disability or illness in children's fiction from the last century.
To be published by Bettany Press
in 2007, the book will fit extremely well alongside Bettany Press' other publications as Bettany Press specialises in books written by women about girls/women's fiction and the book has been created with that in mind. Bettany Press is owned by Ju Gosling
Writers will not be restricted to a particular genre, for instance school stories, but are restricted to stories originally published in English and which girls would have read in their childhoods, and girls might still read today. Each chapter will be expected to be in the region of 8,500 words long.