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Ladataan... Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her TimeTekijä: Michael du Preez
  
- Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta.  AdonisGuilfoyle | Oct 21, 2017 | 
 "...this is the first to reveal his definitive origins and identity, based on previously unpublished material....The story of the little Irish girl who helped to change the world is too remarkable for fiction." "The great pleasure of this book is its detail. It is one thing to re-create a life, but quite another to fill in the background as vividly as the authors have done, fleshing out the personalities of walk-on characters and giving colour and context to Barry’s world – or worlds. Wherever their subject goes, whether it is Margate or Mauritius, they make those places come alive with contemporary descriptions and reports."
A Sunday Times Book of the Year As featured on the BBC Radio 2 Book Club Dr James Barry was many things in his life- Inspector General of Hospitals, army surgeon, duellist, reformer, lady killer, eccentric. He performed the first successful Caesarean in the British Empire, outraged the military establishment, and gave Florence Nightingale a dressing down at Scutari. At home he was surrounded by a menagerie of animals, including a cat, a goat, a parrot and a terrier. But most astonishingly, long ago in Cork, Ireland, he had been a young girl and a mother. Drawing on a decade of research in archives all over the world, including the unearthing of previously unknown material, Michael du Preez and Jeremy Dronfield tell the amazing true story of Margaret Anne Bulkley, the young woman who broke the rules of Georgian society to become one of the most respected and controversial army surgeons of the century. In an extraordinary life, she crossed paths with the British Empire 's great and good, royalty and rebels, soldiers and slaves. A medical pioneer, she rose to a position that no woman before her had been allowed to occupy. However, for all her successes, her long, audacious deception also left her isolated, even costing her the chance to be with the man she loved. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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Dr James Barry, the male persona of Margaret Anne Bulkley, was a pioneer in many senses, not least that he was actually a she (many people suspected, a few knew the truth, but nobody spoke a word, such was Barry's reputation and professional skill). Barry's original plan was to qualify as a man and then travel to Venezuela with one of 'his' early patrons and practice medicine openly as Margaret Bulkley, but instead James Barry remained, voyaging from Mauritius to Malta, St Helena, Corfu, Crimea and Canada, saving lives (including one the early successful cesarean operations) and generally pissing people off. Barry might have dressed like a man, but he was still a working class Irish woman at heart, headstrong and oustpoken. Every chapter seems to run along the lines of 'New country, higher rank, more responsibility, Barry balls somebody out (even challenging a fellow officer to a duel!), reprimanded, moves on'. A character, definitely, but not a particularly engaging or sympathetic one.
Apparently, a film is going to be made of Barry's story, with Rachel Weisz playing Margaret/James? I would have gone with Tilda Swinton or Anne Marie Duff, but this might be one instance where cherry-picking through a life to fit a film might work better than a full biography. (