Author: Rachel Scott Russell Holmes
Publisher: Random House (NY)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
An explosive story of colonial life, nineteenth-century science, and the mysteries of sexuality, Rachel Holmes's Scanty Particulars transcends the genre of biography. Through prodigious research and vivid storytelling, Holmes brings to life one of the most enigmatic figures of his time. In the 1820s, Dr. James Barry burst into the English establishment from nowhere. He landed in Cape Town and became the leading military doctor in the South African colony, working tirelessly to improve the conditions of free and enslaved women, lepers, and the indigent. Barry's further travels included postings to the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, and Canada. In his career, he collided with some of the leading figures of the age, and his exploits were regarded with fascination by Mark Twain and Charles Dickens. Barry was a flamboyant bon vivant: fashionably dressed, flirtatious, and always accompanied by a poodle. Wherever he went, he sparked gossip, made enemies, and inspired relentless curiosity about his identity--curiosity that erupted into international scandal upon Barry's death, when his maidservant discovered the truth about this brilliant but mysterious icon of the Victorian age.
Introduction to Homoeopathic Prescribing
Author: S. M. Gunavante
Publisher: B. Jain Publishers
ISBN: 9788170213093
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
A comprehensive book on all aspects of homeopathy except Meteria medica written for the medical graduates of modem medicine .
Publisher: B. Jain Publishers
ISBN: 9788170213093
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
A comprehensive book on all aspects of homeopathy except Meteria medica written for the medical graduates of modem medicine .
Neo-/Victorian Biographilia and James Miranda Barry
Author: Ann Heilmann
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319713868
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Senior colonial officer from 1813 to 1859, Inspector General James Barry was a pioneering medical reformer who after his death in 1865 became the object of intense speculation when rumours arose about his sex. This cultural history of Barry’s afterlives in Victorian to contemporary (neo-Victorian) life-writing (‘biographilia’) examines the textual and performative strategies of biography, biofiction and biodrama of the last one and a half centuries. In exploring the varied reconstructions and re-imaginations of the historical personality across time, the book illustrates (not least with its cover image) that the ‘real’ James Barry does not exist, any more than does the ‘faithful’ biographical, biofictional or biodramatic rendering of a life in a generically ‘stable’ and discrete form. What Barry represents and how he is represented invariably pinpoints the imaginative, the speculative and the performative: reflections and refractions in the looking glass of genre. Just as ‘James Miranda Barry’, as a subject of cultural inquiry, comes into being and remains in view in the act of crossing gender, so neo-Victorian life-writing constitutes itself through similar acts of boundary transgression. Transgender thus finds its most typical expression in transgenre.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319713868
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Senior colonial officer from 1813 to 1859, Inspector General James Barry was a pioneering medical reformer who after his death in 1865 became the object of intense speculation when rumours arose about his sex. This cultural history of Barry’s afterlives in Victorian to contemporary (neo-Victorian) life-writing (‘biographilia’) examines the textual and performative strategies of biography, biofiction and biodrama of the last one and a half centuries. In exploring the varied reconstructions and re-imaginations of the historical personality across time, the book illustrates (not least with its cover image) that the ‘real’ James Barry does not exist, any more than does the ‘faithful’ biographical, biofictional or biodramatic rendering of a life in a generically ‘stable’ and discrete form. What Barry represents and how he is represented invariably pinpoints the imaginative, the speculative and the performative: reflections and refractions in the looking glass of genre. Just as ‘James Miranda Barry’, as a subject of cultural inquiry, comes into being and remains in view in the act of crossing gender, so neo-Victorian life-writing constitutes itself through similar acts of boundary transgression. Transgender thus finds its most typical expression in transgenre.
Repertory of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica
Author: James Tyler Kent
Publisher: B. Jain Publishers
ISBN: 9788170211532
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
A Repertory Which Is Used By Every Homoeopath.Based On The Original Provings And Information Gathered Till That Time.Includes The Art Of Repertorizing.
Publisher: B. Jain Publishers
ISBN: 9788170211532
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
A Repertory Which Is Used By Every Homoeopath.Based On The Original Provings And Information Gathered Till That Time.Includes The Art Of Repertorizing.
The Englishwoman's Review of Social and Industrial Questions
Author: Janet Horowitz Murray
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315407647
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
The Englishwoman’s Review, which published from 1866 to 1910, participated in and recorded a great change in the range of possibilities open to women. The ideal of the magazine was the idea of the emerging emancipated middle-class woman: economic independence from men, choice of occupation, participation in the male enterprises of commerce and government, access to higher education, admittance to the male professions, particularly medicine, and, of course, the power of suffrage equal to that of men. First published in 1985, this ninth volume contains issues from 1876. With an informative introduction by Janet Horowitz Murray and Myra Stark, and an index compiled by Anna Clark, this set is an invaluable resource to those studying nineteenth and early twentieth-century feminism and the women’s movement in Britain.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315407647
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
The Englishwoman’s Review, which published from 1866 to 1910, participated in and recorded a great change in the range of possibilities open to women. The ideal of the magazine was the idea of the emerging emancipated middle-class woman: economic independence from men, choice of occupation, participation in the male enterprises of commerce and government, access to higher education, admittance to the male professions, particularly medicine, and, of course, the power of suffrage equal to that of men. First published in 1985, this ninth volume contains issues from 1876. With an informative introduction by Janet Horowitz Murray and Myra Stark, and an index compiled by Anna Clark, this set is an invaluable resource to those studying nineteenth and early twentieth-century feminism and the women’s movement in Britain.
The Church Quarterly Review
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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The Exploration of Australia
Author: Albert Frederick Calvert
Publisher:
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Winchester Cathedral Close
Author: John Vaughan
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
A friend in need [by mrs. T.E. Freeman].
Author: mrs. T E Freeman
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 780
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China and Australasia
Author:
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 774
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