The Woman Who Ran For President: The Many Lives of Victoria Woodhull

Lois Beachy Underhill

doi:10.5771/9781461739340

Summary

Victoria Woodhull was a feminist pioneer who rose up from poverty to become the first woman Wall Street broker, the first woman to testify before Congress and the first woman to run for president. A beautiful woman and a spellbinding public speaker, she was also a figure of scandal--a divorcee and practicing clairvoyant turned muckracking newspaper publisher, a free-love advocate (and practitioner), and a socialist.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/1995
Copyright Year: 1995
ISBN-Print: 978-1-882593-10-1
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4617-3934-0
Publisher: Bridgeworks, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 348
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. INTRODUCTION: Gloria Steinem No access
PROLOGUE: May 10, 1872 "Let Us Have Justice" No access Pages 1 - 8
1. I . "A Favoring Omen" No access
2. 2. " Send for the Spirits" No access
1. 3. Commodore Vanderbilt No access
2. 4. "The Coming Woman" No access
3. 5. "Gold, Gold, Gold Was the Cry" No access
4. 6. "Woodhull, Claflin & Company No access
5. 7. The Art of the Soirée No access
6. 8 . "I Announce Myself as a Candidate for the Presidency" No access
7. 9. Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly No access
8. 10. Whispering in the President's Ear No access
9. 11. The Woodhull No access
10. 12. The Great Secession Speech No access
11. 13. Muckraking Days No access
12. 14. Annie's Day in Court No access
13. 15. "I Do Not Intend to Be the Scapegoat" No access
14. 16. "The Sweeter Impulses of Nature" No access
15. 17. The Grand Endowments of Henry Ward Beecher No access
16. 18. The Victoria League No access
17. 19. The Spiritualists No access
18. 20. A Famous Test Question No access
19. 21. "Yes, I Am a Free Lover" No access
20. 22. A Suffragist Nomination for President No access
21. 23. Jesus Christ and Karl Marx No access
22. 24. A Collection of American Originals No access
23. 25. Crisis No access
24. 26. Beecher Exposed No access
25. 27. Ludlow Street Jail No access
26. 28. Reported Dead No access
27. 29. "Perfected Sexuality" No access
28. 30. "Deluges of Filth" No access
29. 31. "The End of the World Is at Hand" No access
1. 32. Inventing "Mrs. Woodhall" No access
2. 33. 17 Hyde Park Gate No access
3. 34. The Grasshopper and the Humanitarian No access
4. 35. The Courage to Stand in the Path of Man No access
EPILOGUE "Women Must Own Themselves"" No access Pages 307 - 312
BIBLIOGRAPHY No access Pages 313 - 322
NOTES No access Pages 323 - 338
INDEX No access Pages 339 - 348