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,
“... Empire. The Georgians felt delight and sometimes appalled fascination at what the historian Dror Wahrman has called the ‘protean mutability of identity’. If, as Fielding claimed in 1743, society was ‘a vast Masquerade, where the greatest Part appear disguised’, a stunt such as Barry’s wouldn’t appear particularly subversive. The ... ”
