Dr James Barry


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A Sunday Times Book of the Year As featured on the BBC Radio 2 Book Club Dr James Barry: Inspector General of Hospitals, army surgeon, duellist, reformer, ladykiller, 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. Long ago in Cork, Ireland, he had also been a mother. This is the amazing tale of Margaret Anne Bulkley, the young woman who broke the rules of Georgian society to become one of the most respected 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, but for all her successes, her long, audacious deception also left her isolated, even costing her the chance to be with the man she loved.







The Works of James Barry ... Historical Painter ...: Observations on different works of art in France and Italy. Remarks on the paintings of the Orleans gallery: exhibited 1798 at no. 88, Pall Mall. Fragment on the story and painting of Pandora. An inquiry into the real and imaginary obstructions to the acquisition of the arts in England. An account of a series of pictures, in the great room of the Society of arts, manufactures, and commerce at the Adelphi. A letter to the Society for the encouragement of arts, manufactures, and commerce, 1793. A letter to the Dilettanti society, respecting the obtention of certain matters essentially necessary for the improvement of public taste and for accomplishing the original views of the Royal academy of Great Britain. Letter to the Society of arts, respecting the naval pillar


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The Works of James Barry ... Historical Painter ...: Observations on different works of art in France and Italy. Remarks on the paintings of the Orleans gallery; exhibited 1798, at no. 88, Pall-Mall. Fragment on the story and painting of Pandora. An inquiry into the real and imaginary obstructions to the acquisition of the arts in England. An account of a series of pictures, in the great room of the Society of arts, manufacturers, and commerce of the Adelphi. A letter to the Society for the encouragement of arts, manufacturers, and commerce. 1793. A letter to the Dilettanti society, respecting the obtention of certain matters essentially necessary for the improvement of public taste, and for accomplishing the original views of the Royal academy of Great Britain. Letter to the Society of arts, respecting the naval pillar


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The Cape Doctor


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A "gorgeous, thoughtful, heartbreaking" historical novel, The Cape Doctor is the story of one man’s journey from penniless Irish girl to one of most celebrated and accomplished figures of his time (Lauren Fox, New York Times bestselling author of Send for Me). Beginning in Cork, Ireland, the novel recounts Jonathan Mirandus Perry’s journey from daughter to son in order to enter medical school and provide for family, but Perry soon embraced the new-found freedom of living life as a man. From brilliant medical student in Edinburgh and London to eligible bachelor and quick-tempered physician in Cape Town, Dr. Perry thrived. When he befriended the aristocratic Cape Governor, the doctor rose to the pinnacle of society, before the two were publicly accused of a homosexual affair that scandalized the colonies and nearly cost them their lives. E. J. Levy’s enthralling novel, inspired by the life of Dr. James Miranda Barry, brings this captivating character vividly alive.




James Barry, 1741-1806


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The Works of James Barry ... Historical Painter ..; Volume 1


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The Perfect Gentleman


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Sacred Hunger


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Winner of the Booker Prize A historical novel set in the eighteenth century, Sacred Hunger is a stunning, engrossing exploration of power, domination, and greed in the British Empire as it entered fully into the slave trade and spread it throughout its colonies. Barry Unsworth follows the failing fortunes of William Kemp, a merchant pinning his last chance to a slave ship; his son who needs a fortune because he is in love with an upper-class woman; and his nephew who sails on the ship as its doctor because he has lost all he has loved. The voyage meets its demise when disease spreads among the slaves and the captain's drastic response provokes a mutiny. Joining together, the sailors and the slaves set up a secret, utopian society in the wilderness of Florida, only to await the vengeance of the single-minded, young Kemp.