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      The Beacon at Alexandria

      by Gillian Bradshaw
      Published
      Sep 1986
      Main Genre
      Historical Romance Hist. Romance
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      376
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      In the Fourth Century A.D., independent and determined young Charis is forbidden to become a doctor because she is a woman. Disguising herself as a eunuch she flees Ephesus for Alexandria, then the center of learning. There she apprentices to a Jewish doctor but eventually becomes drawn into Church politics and is forced once again to flee. She serves as an army doctor at a Roman outpost in Thrace until, kidnapped by barbarian Visigoths, she finds her destiny to heal and also to be a woman and a wife.

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      Romance

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      Historical Historical Romance

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      Jul 1994 Soho Press ISBN 1569470103
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      First Edition Sep 1986 Houghton Mifflin ISBN 0395411599
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