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,
“... impostors of all: women who masqueraded as military men. The tyrannical army surgeon Dr James Barry – prone to picking quarrels and partial to red-heeled, thigh-high boots paired with an outsized dress sword – doesn’t figure in Stoker’s parade. It’s a strange omission – Barry’s story was well known to Edwardians – but Stoker had ... ”