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Dr James Barry
Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time | Michael du Preez, Jeremy Dronfield
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Dr James Barry: Inspector General of Hospitals, army surgeon, duellist, reformer, lady killer, eccentric. He performed the first Caesarean in Africa, was deported from St Helena and gave Florence Nightingale a dressing down in the Crimea. At home, he was surrounded by a menagerie of animals, including a cat, a goat, a parrot and half a dozen small terriers. Long ago, in another life in Cork, Ireland, he had also been a mother. This is the amazing true story of Margaret Ann Bulkey, the young woman who broke the rules of Georgian society to become one of the most respected surgeons of the century. Her life became one long, audacious act of deception that saw her rise to positions no woman had ever reached before, but it also left her isolated, even costing her the chance to be with the man she loved.
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Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time | Michael du Preez, Jeremy Dronfield
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Before today I had never heard of this remarkable woman who posed as a man to beat the UK prohibition against female doctors and went on to have a distinguished career as a surgeon. I'll definitely be reading this! #KickassHeroines #SeasonsReadings2016

LeahBergen This sounds amazing! 8y
Simona Well, I'm on my way to ebooks store...bye! 8y
Moray_Reads @LeahBergen I know! I'm particularly embarrassed that I didn't know if hey since I used to work for the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh! 8y
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charl08 It's a good read (although I wasn't convinced by all of the authors' argument) 8y
charl08 There's a good novel based on her life too 8y
Moray_Reads @charl08 Thanks, I'll look out for that 8y
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