The Doctor Who Feigned Manhood

Barrymaniac
/ˈbɑːri meɪnɪak/
noun
person filled with excessive and single-minded zeal for Dr James Barry (1789-1865), a 19th century transgender army surgeon from Cork City, Ireland.

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Nonfiction

• The Strange Story of Dr James Barry: Army Surgeon, Inspector-General of Hospitals, Discovered on Death to be a Woman by Isobel Rae [1958]♀
• The Perfect Gentleman: The Remarkable Life of Dr. James Miranda Barry, the Woman who Served as an Officer in the British Army from 1813 to 1859 by June Rose [1977]♀
• Scanty Particulars: The Scandalous Life and Astonishing Secret of James Barry, Queen Victoria's Most Eminent Military Doctor or The Secret Life of Dr James Barry Victorian England's Most Eminent Surgeon by Rachel Holmes [2002, updated introduction 2020]♂
• Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time by Michael du Preez and Jeremy Dronfield [2016]⚥
• Neo-/Victorian Biographilia & James Miranda Barry: A Study in Transgender & Transgenre by Ann Heilmann [2018]♂

Books that just mention him

• Women-At-Arms: their famous exploits through the ages by Reginald Hargreaves (1930)♀
• The Indomitable Lady Doctors by Carlotta Hacker [1974]♀
• Eminent Victorian Women by Elizabeth Longford [1981]♀
• Wild Irish Women: Extraordinary Lives from History by Marian Brodrick [2001]♀
• The Cape Doctor in the Nineteenth Century: A Social History edited by Harriet Deacon, Howard Phillips, and Elizabeth Van Heyningen [2004]
• Mná na hÉireann: Women Who Shaped Ireland by Nicola Depuis [2009]♀

Fiction

• The Journal of Dr. James Barry or Dr James Barry: her secret story by Olga Racster and Jessica Grove (1932)
• James Miranda Barry or The Doctor by Patricia Duncker [1999]♀
• The Secret Life Of Dr. James Miranda Barry by Anne Kronenfeld and Ivan Kronenfeld (2000)





• A Modern Sphinx (1881) by Ebenezer Rogers, reprinted as "Madeline's Mystery" edited by Mary Elizabeth Braddon [F, W]
• Stranger in a Sacred Land by Susan Sorek
• The Iron Lady by Arjona Ollero, Juan Carlos
• The Cape Doctor by E.J. Levy
• With a Silent Companion by Town, Florida Ann
• Tiger's Heart by Kit Brennan

Children's

• The Mysterious Life of Dr Barry: A Surgeon Unlike Any Other by Lisa Williamson
• The Cottonwool Doctor by Jean de Wet
• Were I Not a Girl: The Inspiring and True Story of Dr. James Barry by Lisa Robinson

Books that just mention him

• Blazing a Trail: Irish Women Who Changed the World by Sarah Webb {mention}
• Fantastically Great Women Who Worked Wonders by Kate Pankhurst

Other

• Dr James Barry (1795?-1865) Inspector-General of Military Hospitals: A Bibliography by Margaret Bevan(1966) [Book List]

Little can be found on this though it does have an entry on the Wellcome Collection's website Wellcome Collection's website and Professer Percival R. Kirby discusses it in his 1970 article 'Dr James Barry, Controversial South African Medical Figure:A Recent Evaluation of His Life and Sex'.


"In 1966 Miss Margaret Bevan, of the Johannesburg Public Library, prepared a bibliography of Dr James Barry, which lists and describes 168 items dealing with the doctor and his activities in South Africa. The first 75 of these deal with the question of Barry's sex, and the remainder chiefly with his life and work at the Cape. But these items do not include references to the numerous and often voluminous reports sent by Barry to his superior officers from the various parts of the world in which he was stationed from time to time. For those one has to search the Archives in South Africa as well as those in London; and if one does this one is confronted with a vast mass of material which it would take years to deal with adequately."



• 45-minute play, "Dr Barry"/Colours by Jean Binnie* (1988)
• 2004 play, Whistling Psyche by Sebastian Barry
• 1984 play, Barry: a Personal Statement, written by Fredrick Mohr
• Grow Old, Growing Lovely - (1951) https://archive.org/details/GrowLovelyGrowingOld/page/n1/mode/2up
• The Surgeon's Brain by Oscar Upperton [Poetry, 2022]

Non-English language books

• La vie mystérieuse, insolente et héroïque du docteur James Barry (née Margaret Bulkley) by Bauthian, Isabelle [Children's, French]
• Le secret du docteur Barry by Ouellette, Sylvie [Novel, French]
• Die kapokdokter by François Loots [Novel, Afrikaans]