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A reissue of Rachel Holmes's landmark biography of Dr James Barry, one of the most enigmatic figures of the Victorian age

About the Author

Rachel Holmes is the author of Eleanor Marx: A Life, The Secret Life of Dr James Barry and The Hottentot Venus: The Life and Death of Saartjie Baartman. She is co-editor of Fifty Shades of Feminism and I Call Myself A Feminist. She lives in London.

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Meticulously researched and fantastically discursive
*Independent Magazine*

Wonderful
*Amanda Foreman*

Serious, sympathetic and absolutely fascinating
*Mail on Sunday*

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