Scanty Particulars: The Scandalous Life and Astonishing Secret of James Barry, Queen Victoria's Most Eminent Military Doctor by Rachel Holmes

Scanty Particulars: The Scandalous Life and Astonishing Secret of James Barry, Queen Victoria's Most Eminent Military Doctor

Rachel Holmes with James Barry

384 pages first pub 2002 (view editions)

nonfiction biography history lgbtqia+ adventurous reflective slow-paced
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James Miranda Barry, (1795-1865) was one of the great, forgotten pioneers of medicine and surgery in the 19th-century British empire. Posted to a series of far-flung corners of colonialism--from the Cape Colony to St Helena, the Caribbean to Canad...

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