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2020/138: The Perfect Gentleman: The Remarkable Life of Dr James Miranda Barry -- June Rose
‘Good form’ was not enough for her – she needed to believe in the innate chivalry of a gentleman in order to maintain her masquerade. [loc. 1209]
James Miranda Barry (1789-1865) was, by vocation, a military surgeon who advocated hygiene and humane treatment of the mentally ill, strove to ignore racism in South African society, and insisted that 'it was better to be without advice than to have bad advice whether in Law or Physic’. Dr Barry was also a woman who lived her whole life, from boyhood, as a man. ( more )
