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A highly readable combination of history and biography, Other Powers interviews the stories of some of the most colorful social, political, and religious figures of America's Victorian era with the courageous and notorious life of Victoria Woodhull--psychic, suffragette, publisher, presidential candidate, and self-confessed practitioner of free.
Top 5 Biographies of Victoria Woodhull - Nicole Evelina
The Woodhull Sexual Freedom Alliance is an American human rights and sexual freedom advocacy organization, it was founded in , and it is named in honor of Victoria Woodhull. She was honored by the Office of the Manhattan Borough President in March and she was also included on a map of historical sites which are related or dedicated to. A highly readable combination of history and biography, Other Powers interviews the stories of some of the most colorful social, political, and religious. A highly readable combination of history and biography, Other Powers interviews the stories of some of the most colorful social, political, and religious figures of America's Victorian era with the courageous and notorious life of Victoria Woodhull--psychic, suffragette, publisher, presidential candidate, and self-confessed practitioner of free.
Barbara Goldsmith's portrait of suffragette Victoria Woodhull and her times was hailed by George Plimpton as "a beautifully written biography of a remarkable. Barbara Goldsmith's Other Powers is a strange book: ostensibly a biography of Victoria Woodhull, 19th Century American feminist, it's really a rambling, discursive look at the different threads of Gilded Age America that kinda sorta intermingled in Woodhull's career. Kinda.
A stunning combination of history and biography that interweaves the stories of some of the most important social, political, and religious figures of America'. Victoria Woodhull was born in Homer, Ohio on Septem to parents Reuben Buckman Claflin and Roxanna Hummel. Woodhull’s childhood was a turbulent one: she received only three years of inconsistent schooling at Homer’s Methodist Church school before her family was forced to leave town under the suspicion that her father had.
Victoria Woodhull, the Spirit to Run the White House
The first woman to run for president and the first female stock broker on Wall Street, Victoria Woodhull achieved remarkable success in finance, journalism, and politics. A spiritualist, suffragist, and free love advocate, Woodhull was an iconoclast who fought for her beliefs no matter how controversial they were at the time. Other Powers |
Victoria Woodhull was a fervent Spiritualist who searched for meaning in a society not so different from our own, in that most people felt overwhelmed by financial manipulations and technical achievements they could not comprehend. Other Powers The Age of Suffrage Spiritualism & the ...
1) Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull By Barbara Goldsmith. This is my favorite biography because it is so rich in detail, especially in regards to Victoria as a spiritualist and medium, an area many other biographies skim over, dismiss as ludicrous, or choose to omit entirely.
Woodhull, Victoria Claflin (1838 - Social Welfare History Project
Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull is a portrait of the tumultuous last half of the nineteenth century, when the United States experienced the Civil War, Reconstruction, Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial, and the collapse of the gold market. Other Powers: the Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the ...
Woodhull advocated for equal education for women, woman’s right to vote, and women’s right to control their own health decisions. She criticized the Victorian ideal of women’s place being first and foremost in the home as full-time wives and mothers. 