James Barry: Inspector General of Army Hospitals

Inspector-General Sir James Ranald Martin, C.B., F.R.S.

Dr James Barry: the early years revealed.

The extraordinary story of Dr James Barry still excites interest and controversy over one hundred and forty years after her death. Dr Barry's army career has been well documented, but her early life has remained obscure and subject to speculation. This study advances some ideas previously presented, and from a substantial collection of contemporary manuscripts reconstructs an important part of ...

Memoirs of Edward Hare, Inspector-General of Hospitals *London, Grant Richards, 1900.

GENERAL OF HOSPITALS * ^K have much pleasure in recommending to the attention of our readers this admirable little volume written by Major E. C. Hare, I.M.S., now Civil Surgeon of Gauhati, on the career in India of his father, the late InspectorGeneral of Hospitals, Edward Hare. Edward Hare went out to India to join his appointment as Assistant-Surgeon of the East Indian Company's Service in th...

Dr James Barry (1789-1865): the Edinburgh years.

Dr James Barry, a surgeon in the British Army from 1813 until his retirement in 1859, became famous after his death following the revelation that he was in fact a woman who had masqueraded as a man for no less than 56 years. This paper reviews Margaret Bulkley's student years at the University of Edinburgh from the time of her adoption of the identity of the youth calling himself James Barry. T...

Obscurity and Gender Resistance in Patricia Duncker's James Miranda Barry

Since his death in 1865, military surgeon James Barry has alternately been classified as a cross-dressing woman or as an intersexed individual. Patricia Duncker's novel James Miranda Barry (1999) poses an important challenge to such readings, as it does not reveal any foundational truth about Barry's sex. Resting on obscurity rather than revelation, the text frustrates the desire to know the pa...