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The Cape doctor : a novel Cover Image Book Book

The Cape doctor : a novel

Levy, E. J. (Ellen J.) (author.).

Summary: 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.

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  • ISBN: 9780316536585
  • ISBN: 031653658X
  • Physical Description: ix, 337 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021.

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Subject: Physicians -- Fiction
Gender identity -- Fiction
Passing (Identity) -- Fiction
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
Irish -- South Africa -- Fiction
Cape Town (South Africa) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
Genre: Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Bowen Island Public Library.

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