Miranda Seymour I, Vera: the Many Lives of Vera Gedroits, a Radical Princess

Miranda Seymour is an English literary critic, novelist and acclaimed biographer of Robert Graves, Mary Shelley, Ada Lovelace and Jean Rhys among others.

Miranda has received widespread praise for I ,Vera, The Many Lives of Vera Gedroits, Radical Princess.

This book is the first full biography in any language of one of the most remarkable women of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union, the first female professor of surgery in her country and an extraordinarily original character, this astonishing book is full, authoritative and seminal, and is so well written and researched that it is unlikely to be superseded in the foreseeable future.

This is a thrilling masterpiece of biographical reconstruction.

In Vera, Miranda Seymour has discovered a magnetic character, whose enthralling, bold, but until now little known life moves at the speed of a comet.

Born into the Russian nobility, Princess Vera started a career of radical innovation as a young factory doctor at the turn of the nineteenth century in Russia's provincial backwoods, going on to become one of the world's first female surgeons, a pioneering expert in battlefield repairs and a medical reformer far ahead of her time in Kiev after WW1.

Gripping, often startling and full of frankly incredible plot twists, I, Vera reads like a thriller.