The Cape Doctor
A Novel
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: ix, 335 pages ; 25 cm
A novel inspired by the life of Dr. James Miranda Barry follows a penniless Irish girl who adopts the identity of a boy in order to enter medical school, and embracing the freedom of living life as a man, becomes one of the most well-respected physicians in nineteenth-century Cape Town.
Subjects:
Transgender men -- Fiction.
Physicians -- Fiction.
Cape Town (South Africa) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Transgender men -- Fiction.
Physicians -- Fiction.
Cape Town (South Africa) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780316536585
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