Victoria Woodhull
Victoria Claflin Woodhull (
1838-
1927) was a feminist
reformer, some say
clairvoyant,
stock broker,
sex symbol and
free love advocate of the 19th century. She went from "rags to riches" twice with her first fortune being made on the road as a highly successful spiritualist. As other
feminists declared that women in general were under-paid, she made another fortune on the
New York stock exchange as the first female
Wall Street broker. As the better known
Susan B. Anthony cast her vote in the
1872 presidential election, Woodhull was standing as a presidential candidate (the first woman to do so), but couldn't vote for herself since she was imprisoned on charges of indecency. She was also the first person to publish
Karl Marx' communist manifesto in America (in her own newspaper).
George Francis Train once defended her.
On May 10, 1872 Woodhull became the first woman nominated for President of the United States.
Further reading
- Das Aufsehen erregende Leben der Victoria Woodhull by Antje Schrupp;
Helmer (2002), EUR 18,00
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