Patricia Duncker: James Miranda Barry, (1999)
Publisher’s description:
“At the turn of the nineteenth century, ten-year-old James Miranda Barry enrolled as a medical student in Edinburgh, the start of a glorious career as a military surgeon.
Across the Empire, Barry achieved fame not only as a brilliant physician, but also a legendary duellist and a celebrated social figure. But James Miranda Barry was also a woman. Her greatest achievement of all had been to ‘pass’ for a man for more than fifty years. Patricia Duncker’s novel tells Barry’s story for the first time, in a richly inventive and entertaining tale of dark family secrets, adultery, questioned paternity and colonial history. It confirms her rare talent as a writer of profound ideas and immense storytelling power.”
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Articles:
Duncker, Patricia : James Miranda Barry , [Literature Annotations]
Jacalyn Duffin
Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database, New York University
http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Annotation?action=view&annid=12172
The Enigma of James Barry
Mary Hammond
Women: A Cultural Review, vol. 13, no. 1, p. 104-106
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09574040252980636
An aesthetics of performativity: Patricia Duncker’s art of simulation in James Miranda
Barry
Christian Gutleben
Études anglaises, 2/2007, vol. 60, p. 212-225
http://www.cairn.info/revue-etudes-anglaises-2007-2-page-212.htm
Obscurity and gender resistance in Patricia Duncker’s James Miranda Barry
Jana Funke
European Journal of English Studies, vol. 16, no. 3, p. 215-226
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2012.735410
A shadow at my shoulder : Novelist Patricia Duncker tells Nicholas Wroe about her secret sharer
Nicholas Wroe
The Guardian, 12.8.2000
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2000/aug/12/fiction.nicholaswroe
Patricia Duncker’s Official Website:
http://www.patriciaduncker.com/index.html
James Barry (surgeon) in Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Barry_%28surgeon%29
Inspector General James Barry MD: putting the woman in her place
Brian Hurwitz, Ruth Richardson
BMJ, vol. 298, 4 Feb. 1989, p. 299-305
http://www.bmj.com/highwire/filestream/262194/field_highwire_article_pdf/0/299
Dr. James Barry: military man – or woman?
K. M. Smith
Can Med Assoc J. 1982 April 1; 126(7): p. 854–857
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1863077/
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