Margaret Ann Bulkley

Margaret Ann Bulkley

50 years before women were allowed to enroll into medical school, Margaret Ann Bulkley dressed as a man for 56 years to study medicine and become her alter-ego, Dr. James Barry. It was only when she died in 1865 that her secret was exposed after 46 years working as an army medical officer.

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