With a Silent Companion

by Town, Florida Ann

• ISBN13: 9780889952119
• ISBN10: 0889952116
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: Red Deer Pr

Summary

Jnapited By a True Story, With a Silent Companion recounts the remarkable journey of Margaret Anne Bulkley, a young woman born in nineteenth-century Ireland. Her heart broken by the constant threat of poverty but her spirit awakened by the challenge of two gentlemen. Margaret enrolls in medicine at Edinburgh University and, after years of dedicated study, becomes a surgeon. It is a story of struggle and triumph made all the more exceptional because Margaret Anne Bulkley does it disguised as a man. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Author's Acknowledgments
Author's Note
Cork	p. 7
London	p. 22
Miranda and Buchan	p. 44
Edinburgh	p. 61
Granduation	p. 75
Cape Town	p. 92
The Rumour	p. 117
The Challenge	p. 130
The Nightingale Encounter	p. 143
Canada	p. 154
Epilogue	p. 172
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