Д-Р ДЖЕЙМС БАРИ - МАРГАРЕТ АН БЪЛКЛИ
DR JAMES BARRY – MARGARET ANNE BULKELEY

Summary/Abstract: Restrictions placed on the type of work women could do in the early 19th century resulted in the majority of the female workforce being in the homes of other women, for example domestic servants, nurses or governesses. Some women went to great lengths to conceal their identities and pursue male occupations in secret. For example, Hannah Snell disguised herself as a man to join the British army in search of her husband who had abandoned her. In the medical profession, the case of Dr. James (Miranda) Barry perhaps best demonstrates how far women can go to practice medicine. Dr Barry‘s career as a doctor spanned several decades after qualifying in Edinburgh in 1812 and included achieving the highest recognition as Inspector General of Hospitals in the British Army. Only after her death in 1865 was it realised that Dr Barry was a woman.

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