Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time – an exquisite story of scandalous subterfuge

Michael du Preez and Jeremy Dronfield shed fresh light on how a woman in Victorian society adopted a male persona and became the UK’s first female doctor
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/nov/10/dr-james-barry-a-woman-ahead-of-her-time-review?source=Snapzu