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Original Title:	Domina ISBN13 9789875661769
Edition Language:	Spanish
Characters:	Samantha Hargrave, Mark Rawlins

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Set in London, New York, and San Francisco from the late nineteenth century through the first decades of the twentieth, Domina is the inspiring saga of one woman's personal and professional triumph against the prejudices of her time.

Beautiful and courageous, Samantha Hargrave dares to dream that she will become one of the first female doctors-and surgeons-in America. Born in the slums of London and possessing a special gift for healing, Samantha struggles to enter the all-male medical profession. When her ambition meets with hostile rejection in England, she sails to America, where she meets an eccentric doctor who takes her on as an apprentice. But at the high-profile Astor Ball in New York, Samantha is introduced to the second of the three men who will change her life forever-and love just might interfere with her ambition.

Acclaimed novelist Barbara Wood reveals her remarkable talent by capturing Samantha's indomitable spirit, making Domina a literary triumph.

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Title	:	Domina
Author	:	Barbara Wood
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 716 pages
Published	:	June 28th 2006 by Debolsillo (first published January 1st 1983)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Romance. Historical Romance. Health. Medicine. Literature. 19th Century

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This book is good right up until the end. The end felt like she had a deadline or was tired of writing and didn't know how to wrap things up so she just ended it quickly without much thought. Quite a lame end for a book with so much potential. But don't get me wrong, I still think it is worth the read.

Born in London, Samantha Hargrave overcomes her motherless plight, attending a young ladies school and eventually making her way to New York, determined to become a doctor in an age where Women were not admitted to medical school. Opening a hospital for women, she discovers the sale of opium,cocaine and alcohol laced medicines lauded as cure alls prevents women from going to doctors until it is too late to help them. On the way she finds love but her third final love eludes her but ---

I liked this book, thinking of Victorian era and how things have changed since then. I do wonder though if the time line was compressed for the sake of the story. I find it hard to belive that all this happpend in the approximate time span of 16 years. From the discovery of keeping things germ free, abdominal surgery, etc. There was romance in this book but it centered more on Samantha and her great desire to become a doctor. One woman who when she put her mind to something she accomplished it,

Yes, this is the story of one woman's struggle against ignorance and bigotry in our country. However, it is set against American History in the period of "demon rum", prohibiton of women professionals (imagine a female doctor!)and women wanting the right to vote...not so long ago in actual years, dear readers. We have come so far and yet there is so much work still to do done.The struggle that our fictional heroine faces in working to eliminate "patent medicine" those liquid "medications" for

Bodice ripperThought I was buying history storied as fiction This is softporn My mistake not noticing who wrote the reviews If you like that this is a great book not my cup of tea

There were some elements of this book which were way too soap opera-y in my opinion, but I LOVED being plunged into the life of a young woman in the late 19th century who wanted to become a doctor. It was fascinating to understand better the state of medical knowledge at that point and the obstacles women encountered in getting an education and being involved in the medical community.

3.5/5. Fascinating story of a girl who, through many struggles, becomes a doctor in the latter half of the 19th century, when medicine was just emerging from its primitiveness. The story takes us from the slums of London, where we meet Samantha, daughter of a zealous Christian preacher, and takes us to New York City, Upstate New York, where she attends medical college, finally to San Francisco, where she opens a charity hospital with the help of her well-heeled friends, and "muckrakes" against