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In 1809, at the age of 18, Henriette Faber enrolled herself in medical school in Paris - and since treatments was an occupation prohibited to women, she evolved her name to Henri to be able to matriculate. She'd spend the next 15 years practicing treatments and living as a guy. Drafted to serve as a medical expert in Napoleon's military, Faber endured the horrors of the 1812 retreat across Russia. She later embarked to the Caribbean and setup a medical practice in a distant Cuban community, where she wedded Juana de León, an impoverished local. Three years into their matrimony, de León converted Faber into the authorities, demanding that the matrimony be annulled. A sensational legal trial ensued, and Faber was stripped of her medical permit, compelled to dress as a woman, sentenced to jail, and ultimately sent into exile. She was last seen on a boat headed to New Orleans in 1827. In this particular, his last written and published work, Antonio Benítez Rojo calls for the format provided by historical happenings and weaves a richly in depth backdrop for Faber, who becomes a brilliant and complex body grappling with the strictures of her time. Woman in Struggle Dress is a sweeping, ambitious epic, where Henriette Faber tells the storyplot of her life, a powerful, entertaining, and eventually triumphant tale.
