Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-354) and index.
Contents
Part one. Homer; San Francisco, 1855; St. Louis, 1865 -- Part two. Pittsburgh, 1868; New York City, 1868; New York City, September 1869; New York City, February 1870; New York City. April 1870; New York City, May 1870; New York City, November 1870 -- Part three. Washington, D.C., January 1871; Washington, D.C., February 1871; New York City, April 1871; New York City, early May 1871; New York City, Mid-May 1871; New York City, late may 1871; New York City, June 1871; New York City, July 1871; New York City, August 1871; Troy, September 1871; Hartford, October 1871; New York City, early November 1871; New York City, late November 1871; New York City, December 1871; Washington, D.C., January 1872; New York City, May 9,1872; New York City, May 10, 1872; Boston, September 1872 -- Part four. New York City, November 2, 1872; New York City, November 5, 1872; New York City, November 20, 1872; New York City, January 1873; New York City, June 1873; New York City, June 23, 1873; Chicago, September 1873; New York City, late September 1873; New York City, March 1874; New York City, August 1874; New York City, April 1875; New York City, May 1875; New York City, October 1876 -- Part five. London, August 1877; London, October 1883; London, October 1885; New York City, April 1886; London, January 1893; London, February 1894; London, January 1895; Las Palmas, March 1897; London, December 1901; Bredon's Norton, August 1914; Bredon's Norton, June 9, 1927 -- Cosmopolitical Party Platform.
Summary
"Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1838-1927) was the first woman to run for president (sharing the ballot with Frederick Douglass). She was the first woman to address the U.S. Congress and to operate a brokerage firm on Wall Street. Gloria Steinem has called her "the most controversial suffragist of them all." Famed nineteenth-century political cartoonist Thomas Nast portrayed her as "Mrs. Satan." She butted heads with such pillars of society as Cornelius Vanderbilt, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Susan B. Anthony. So why have most people never heard of Victoria Woodhull?" "Journalist Mary Gabriel's authoritative biography provides the answer: she was written out of history, censored by historians of the women's movement as too scandalous. Victoria had worked as a traveling clairvoyant in medicine shows. She was accused of blackmail and prostitution and was jailed for printing obscenities. She preached - and practiced - the concept of free love, once living with her husband, her ex-husband, and her lover at the same time, in the same New York apartment." "Victoria was arguably the boldest voice for women's rights in the nineteenth century, and she was taken very seriously by her contemporaries and by the media, in spite of her unconventional lifestyle." "In Notorious Victoria, Gabriel offers readers a balanced portrait of a unique and complicated woman. Gabriel has extensively researched Victoria's entire life, and her book contains revealing - and uncensored - excerpts from Victoria's own writing and speeches as well as the news accounts of her day. This isn't just the story of one woman, it's also the story of the time in which she lived and the many famous - and infamous - figures whose lives she touched."--Jacket.