A Vast Masquerade
Deborah Cohen: Dr James Barry, 2 March 2017
Dr James Barry: A Woman ahead of Her Time
by Michael du Preez and Jeremy Dronfield.
Oneworld, 479 pp., £16.99, August 2016,978 1 78074 831 3 Show More
by Michael du Preez and Jeremy Dronfield.
Oneworld, 479 pp., £16.99, August 2016,
“... Not only was Dr James Barry a woman but he had given birth to a child. Michael du Preez and Jeremy Dronfield’s Dr James Barry: A Woman ahead of Her Time is the product of exhaustive archival labours. Du Preez, a retired surgeon who has been on Barry’s trail for more than a decade, and Dronfield, a biographer ... ”