Shelf Location |
BookClub/D |
Book Club |
Author |
Du Preez, Michael author. |
Title |
Dr James Barry : a woman ahead of her time : Book Club set / Michael Du Preez & Jeremy Dronfield. |
Publication Details |
London :: 2017. Oneworld,, |
©2016. |
Collation |
xiii, 479 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; ; 20 cm. ; 10 copies ; |
General Note |
First published: 2016. |
Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Part I, 'Was I Not a Girl' 1789--1815: -- 1. A Family at War -- 2. An Unprotected Girl -- 3. Next of Kin -- 4. A Small Fortune -- 5. A Revolutionary Plan -- 6. Sanguine Expectations -- 7. A Man of Understanding -- 8. 'I Would Be a Soldier' -- 9. Qualified to Serve. Part II, More Than a Father 1816--1831: -- 10. The Cape of Good Hope -- 11. 'Savage Neighbours' -- 12. A Prodigy in a Physician -- 13. The Most Wayward of Mortals -- 14. A Change of Circumstances -- 15. Heaven and Earth -- 16. `If Rumour Speaks Truth' -- 17. Dr Barry's Nemesis -- 18. 'Blighting My Fair Prospects' -- 19. A New Life -- 20. A Precipitate Departure -- 21. An Indefatigable Friend. Part III, Flagrant Breaches of Discipline 1831--1845: -- 22. Fever Island -- 23. The Past Revisited -- 24. An Officer and a Gentleman -- 25. Homeward Bound -- 26. Friends in High Places. Part IV, The Most Hardened Creature 1846--1856: -- 27. The Navel of the Mediterranean -- 28. A Question of Numbers -- 29. The Most Kind and Humane Gentleman -- 30. Prodigality and All Wickedness -- 31. The Land of Mornise. Part V, A Useful and Faithful Career 1857--1865: -- 32. tThis Vorld of Voe, this Wale of Tears' -- 33. This Life and No Other -- 34. A Perfect Female. |
Abstract/Summary |
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. |
Subject |
Barry, James, -- 1795-1865 |
Biographies |
Medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century |
Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century |
Book Club set |
Other Author |
Dronfield, Jeremy |
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