Francisco de Miranda

The first is Dr. Edward Fryer, a physician who begins to tutor her.

The second is a Venezuelan general in exile named Francisco de Miranda A revolutionary with a library of thousands of books who lets her read whatever she likes.

The third is an eccentric Scottish nobleman, David Stewart Erskine, the Earl of Buchan, who believes, unusually for his time, that women's minds are as good as men's.

The painter dies in 1806.

And in his circle, in the years around 1806, the girl from Cork meets three men who will change the shape of her life.

The first is Dr. Edward Fryer, a physician who begins to tutor her.

The second is a Venezuelan general in exile named Francisco de Miranda, a revolutionary with a library of thousands of books who lets her read whatever she likes.

The third is an eccentric Scottish nobleman, David Stewart Erskine, the Earl of Buchan, who believes, unusually for his time, that women's minds are as good as men's.