2023-06-15 05:00:16
To survive, Margaret must die. The poor child is suffering “of the worst imaginable defect at the end of the XVIIIe century as in other times” : she was born a girl. In a penniless Cork family, what’s more. His last hope: to obtain the protection of his maternal uncle, a renowned painter living in London. But it is a friend of the latter, a flamboyant Venezuelan general, who will take her under his wing, impressed by the extraordinary intellectual capacities of the little girl. In order to be able to pursue medical studies, which are forbidden to women, and thus support herself, Margaret has no choice: she must become a boy.
Thus was born Jonathan Mirandus Perry. Fascinated by the anatomical plates and the marbled pages of a treatise on childbirth, Mirandus Perry is self-generating. He cuts off his long hair, bandages his chest, hides his clothes every month
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