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The Secret Life of Dr James Barry Rachel Holmes

The Secret Life of Dr James Barry By Rachel Holmes

The Secret Life of Dr James Barry by Rachel Holmes


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The Secret Life of Dr James Barry Summary

The Secret Life of Dr James Barry: Victorian England's Most Eminent Surgeon by Rachel Holmes

A reissue of Rachel Holmes's landmark biography of Dr James Barry, one of the most enigmatic figures of the Victorian age. James Barry was one of the nineteenth century's most exceptional doctors, and one of its great unsung heroes. Famed for his brilliant innovations, Dr Barry influenced the birth of modern medical practice in places as far apart as South Africa, Jamaica and Canada. Barry's skills attracted admirers across the globe, but there were also many detractors of the ostentatious dandy, who caused controversy everywhere he went. Yet unbeknownst to all, the military surgeon concealed a lifelong secret at the heart of his identity: on his death Barry was claimed to be anatomically female and in fact a cross-dresser. Vividly drawn and meticulously researched, The Secret Life of Dr James Barry brings to life one of the most enigmatic figures of the Victorian age, elevating its subject to a latter-day transgender icon - and is a landmark in the art of biography.

The Secret Life of Dr James Barry Reviews

Meticulously researched and fantastically discursive * Independent Magazine *
Wonderful -- Amanda Foreman
Serious, sympathetic and absolutely fascinating * Mail on Sunday *

About Rachel Holmes

Rachel Holmes is the author of Eleanor Marx: A Life, The Secret Life of Dr James Barry and The Hottentot Venus: The Life and Death of Saartjie Baartman. She is co-editor of Fifty Shades of Feminism and I Call Myself A Feminist. She lives in London.

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GOR011370348
9781408891575
1408891573
The Secret Life of Dr James Barry: Victorian England's Most Eminent Surgeon by Rachel Holmes
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
20200917
528
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