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Victoria Woodhull
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Victoria Claflin Woodhull, later Victoria Woodhull

Martin (September 23, 1838 June 9, 1927) was an
American leader of the woman's suffrage movement.
Victoria Woodhull
In 1872, Woodhull was the first female candidate for

President of the United States. An activist for
women's rights and labor reforms, Woodhull was also
an advocate of free love, by which she meant the
freedom to marry, divorce, and bear children without
government interference.[1]
Woodhull went from rags to riches twice, her first
fortune being made on the road as a highly successful
magnetic healer[2] before she joined the spiritualist
movement in the 1870s.[3] While authorship of many
of her articles is disputed (many of her speeches on
these topics were collaborations between Woodhull,
her backers, and her second husband, Colonel James
Blood[4]), her role as a representative of these
movements was powerful. Together with her sister,
she was the first woman to operate a brokerage firm
on Wall Street, and they were among the first women
to found a newspaper, Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly,
which began publication in 1870.[5]
At her peak of political activity in the early 1870s,
Woodhull is best known as the first woman candidate
for the United States presidency, which she ran for in
1872 from the Equal Rights Party, supporting
women's suffrage and equal rights. Her arrest on
obscenity charges a few days before the election for
publishing an account of the alleged adulterous affair
between the prominent minister Henry Ward Beecher
and Elizabeth Tilton added to the sensational
coverage of her candidacy. She did not receive any
electoral votes, and there is conflicting evidence about
popular votes.
Many of the reforms and ideals Woodhull espoused
for the working class, against what she saw as the
corrupt capitalist elite, were extremely controversial
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Born
Victoria California Claflin

September 23, 1838
Homer, Ohio, U.S.
Died
June 9, 1927 (aged88)

Bredon, Worcestershire, U.K.
Knownfor Politics
women's rights
women's suffrage
feminism
civil rights
anti-slavery
stockbroker
journalism
free love
Spouse(s) Canning Woodhull (m.1853?)
Colonel James Blood (m. c.
18651876)
John Biddulph Martin (m. 18831901)
Children
Byron and Zula Maude Woodhull
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in her time. Generations later many of these reforms

have been implemented and are now taken for
granted. Some of her ideas and suggested reforms are
still debated today.
Parent(s)
Reuben Buckman Claflin, Roxanna

Hummel Claflin
Relatives
Tennessee Claflin, sister

Caleb Smith Woodhull, cousin
Contents
Signature
1 Early life and education

2 Early marriages
2.1 First marriage and family
2.2 Second marriage
2.3 Free love
2.4 Prostitution rumors and stance
3 Careers
3.1 Stockbroker
3.2 Newspaper editor
3.3 Women's rights advocate
3.4 First International
3.5 Presidential candidate
4 Life in England and third marriage
5 Views on abortion and eugenics
6 Death
7 Legacy and honors
8 See also
9 References
10 Publications
11 External links
Early life and education

She was born Victoria California Claflin, the seventh of ten children (six of whom survived to
maturity),[6] in the rural frontier town of Homer, Licking County, Ohio. Her mother, Roxanna "Roxy"[6]
Hummel Claflin, was illiterate and was illegitimate.[7] She had become a follower of the Austrian mystic
Franz Mesmer and the new spiritualist movement. Her father, Reuben "Old Buck"[6] Buckman Claflin,
[8][9] was a con man and snake oil salesman.[6] He came from an impoverished branch of the
Massachusetts-based Scots-American Claflin family, semi-distant cousins to Governor William
Claflin.[9] Victoria became close to her sister, Tennessee Celeste Claflin (called Tennie), seven years her
junior and the last child born to the family. As adults they collaborated in founding a stock brokerage
and newspaper in New York City.[6]
By age 11, Woodhull had only three years of formal education, but her teachers found her to be
extremely intelligent. She was forced to leave school and home with her family after her father, after
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having "insured it heavily,"[2] burned the family's rotting gristmill. When he tried to get compensated by
insurance, his arson and fraud were discovered; he was run off by a group of town vigilantes.[2] The
town held a "benefit" to raise funds to pay for the rest of the family's departure from Ohio.[2]
Early marriages
First marriage and family
When she was 14, Victoria met 28-year-old Canning Woodhull
(listed as "Channing" in some records), a doctor from a town
outside Rochester, New York. Her family had consulted him to
treat the girl for a chronic illness. Woodhull practiced medicine
in Ohio at a time when the state did not require formal medical
education and licensing. By some accounts, Woodhull claimed to
be the nephew of Caleb Smith Woodhull, mayor of New York
City from 1849 to 1851; in fact he was a distant cousin.
They were married on November 20, 1853.[10][11] Their marriage
certificate was recorded in Cleveland on November 23, 1853,
when Victoria was two months past her 15th birthday.[2][12] She
soon learned that her new husband was an alcoholic and a
womanizer. She often had to work outside the home to support
the family. She and Canning had two children, Byron and Zulu
(later Zula) Maude.[13] According to one account, Byron was
born with an intellectual disability in 1854, a condition Victoria
believed was caused by her husband's alcoholism. Another
version said his disability resulted from a fall from a window.
Victoria divorced her husband after having the two children, and
kept his surname.[3]
Victoria Woodhull, c. 1860s
Second marriage
About 1866[14] Woodhull married Colonel James Harvey Blood, who also was marrying for a second
time. He had served in the Union Army in Missouri during the American Civil War, and had been
elected as city auditor of St. Louis, Missouri.
Free love
Woodhull's support of free love probably originated as she discovered the failings of her first husband.
Women who married in the United States during the 19th century were bound into the unions, even if
loveless, with few options to escape. Divorce, where possible, was scandalous, and women who
divorced were stigmatized and often ostracized by society. Victoria Woodhull concluded women should
have the choice to leave unbearable marriages. She railed against the hypocrisy of society's tolerating
married men who had mistresses and engaged in other sexual dalliances. In 1872, Woodhull publicly
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criticized well-known clergyman Henry Ward Beecher for adultery. Beecher had an affair with his
parishioner, Elizabeth Tilton, who later confessed to the affair.[15] Woodhull sent the accounts of the
affair through the federal mails, landing her in jail.[16] Woodhull believed in monogamous relationships,
although she did state she had the right also to change her mind: the choice to make love or not was in
every case the woman's choice (since this would place her in an equal status to the man, who had the
capacity to rape and physically overcome a woman, whereas a woman did not have that capacity with
respect to a man).[17] Woodhull said:
To woman, by nature, belongs the right of sexual determination. When the instinct is
aroused in her, then and then only should commerce follow. When woman rises from sexual
slavery to sexual freedom, into the ownership and control of her sexual organs, and man is
obliged to respect this freedom, then will this instinct become pure and holy; then will
woman be raised from the iniquity and morbidness in which she now wallows for existence,
and the intensity and glory of her creative functions be increased a hundred-fold . . .[18]
In her same (at the time, infamous) "Steinway speech," delivered on Monday, November 20, 1871 in
Steinway Hall, New York City, Woodhull also stated her opinion on free love quite clearly: "Yes, I am a
Free Lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or
as short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please, and with that right neither you nor
any law you can frame have any right to interfere."[19]
Prostitution rumors and stance

Rumors have circulated since the nineteenth century that Woodhull was a prostitute, but no primary
evidence exists to support them.[20] Allegedly, these rumors originated in articles published by the
Chicago Mail, but no such articles have been found.[20] Woodhull personally spoke out against
prostitution, and even considered marriage for material gain a form of it, yet her journal, Woodhull &
Claflin's Weekly, voiced support for the legalization of sex work.[20] A personal account from a friend of
Colonel Blood's suggests that Woodhull's sister Tennie was held against her will in a brothel until
Woodhull rescued her, but this story remains unconfirmed.[20]
Careers
Stockbroker
Woodhull and her sister Tennessee (Tennie) Claflin became the first women stockbrokers and in 1870,
opened a brokerage firm on Wall Street. She made a fortune on the New York Stock Exchange.
Woodhull, Claflin & Company opened in 1870, with the assistance of the wealthy Cornelius Vanderbilt,
an admirer of Woodhull's skills as a medium; he is rumored to have been her sister Tennie's lover, and to
have seriously considered marrying her.[21] Newspapers such as the New York Herald hailed Woodhull
and Claflin as "the Queens of Finance" and "the Bewitching Brokers."[22] Many contemporary men's
journals (e.g., The Days' Doings) published sexualized images of the pair running their firm (although
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they did not participate in the day-to-day business of the

firm),[23] linking the concept of publicly minded, un-chaperoned
women with ideas of "sexual immorality" and prostitution.
Newspaper editor
On the date of May 14, 1870, Woodhull and Claflin used the
money they had made from their brokerage to found a paper,
Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly, its primary purpose to support
Victoria Claflin Woodhull for President of the United States,[23]
and which published for the next six years. Feminism was the
Weekly's primary interest,[23] but it became notorious for
publishing controversial opinions on taboo topics, advocating
among other things sex education, free love, women's suffrage,
short skirts, spiritualism, vegetarianism, and licensed
prostitution. Histories often state the paper advocated birth
control, but some historians disagree. The paper is now known
for printing the first English version of Karl Marx's Communist
Manifesto in its December 30, 1871 edition, and the paper
"argued the cause of labor with eloquence and skill.[23] James
Blood and Stephen Pearl Andrews wrote the majority of the
articles, as well as other able contributors.[23]
Cabinet card of Woodhull by Mathew

Brady
In 1872, the Weekly published a story that set off a national scandal and preoccupied the public for
months. Henry Ward Beecher, a renowned preacher of Brooklyn's Plymouth Church, had condemned
Woodhull's free love philosophy in his sermons. But a member of his church, Theodore Tilton, disclosed
to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a colleague of Woodhull, that his wife had confessed Beecher was
committing adultery with her. Provoked by such hypocrisy, Woodhull decided to expose Beecher. He
ended up standing trial in 1875, for adultery in a proceeding that proved to be one of the most
sensational legal episodes of the era, holding the attention of hundreds of thousands of Americans. The
trial ended with a hung jury.
George Francis Train once defended her. Other feminists of her time, including Susan B. Anthony,
disagreed with her tactics in pushing for women's equality. Some characterized her as opportunistic and
unpredictable; in one notable incident, she had a run-in with Anthony during a meeting of the National
Women's Suffrage Association (NWSA). (The radical NWSA later merged with the conservative
American Women's Suffrage Association [AWSA] to form the National American Woman Suffrage
Association.)
Women's rights advocate

Woodhull learned how to infiltrate the all-male domain of national politics and arranged to testify on
women's suffrage before the House Judiciary Committee.[14] Woodhull argued that women already had
the right to vote all they had to do was use it since the 14th and 15th Amendments guaranteed the
protection of that right for all citizens.[24] The simple but powerful logic of her argument impressed
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some committee members. Learning of Woodhull's planned address, suffrage leaders postponed the
opening of the 1871 National Woman Suffrage Association's third annual convention in Washington in
order to attend the committee hearing. Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Isabella Beecher
Hooker, saw Woodhull as the newest champion of their cause. They applauded her statement: "[W]omen
are the equals of men before the law, and are equal in all their rights."[24]
With the power of her first public appearance as a woman's rights advocate, Woodhull moved to the
leadership circle of the suffrage movement. Although her Constitutional argument was not original, she
focused unprecedented public attention on suffrage. Woodhull was the first woman ever to petition
Congress in person. Numerous newspapers reported her appearance before Congress. Frank Leslie's
Illustrated Newspaper printed a full-page engraving of Woodhull, surrounded by prominent suffragists,
delivering her argument.[14][25]
First International
Woodhull joined the International Workingmen's Association, also known as the First International. She
supported its goals by articles in her newspaper. In the United States, many Yankee radicals, former
abolitionists and other progressive activists, became involved in the organization, which had been
founded in England. German-American and ethnic Irish nearly lost control of the organization, and
feared its goals were going to be lost in the broad-based, democratic egalitarianism promoted by the
Americans. In 1871, the Germans expelled most of the English-speaking members of the First
International's U.S. sections, leading to the quick decline of the organization, as it failed to attract the
ethnic working class in America.[26] Karl Marx commented disparagingly on Woodhull in 1872, and
expressed approval of the expulsions.[27]
Presidential candidate
Woodhull announces her candidacy for President by writing a letter to the editor of the New York Herald
on April 2, 1870.[28]
Woodhull was nominated for President of the United States by the newly formed Equal Rights Party on
May 10, 1872, at Apollo Hall, New York City. A year earlier, she had announced her intention to run.
Also in 1871, she spoke publicly against the government being composed only of men; she proposed
developing a new constitution and a new government a year thence.[29] Her nomination was ratified at
the convention on June 6, 1872. They nominated the former slave and abolitionist leader Frederick
Douglass for Vice President. He did not attend the convention and never acknowledged the nomination.
He served as a presidential elector in the United States Electoral College for the State of New York. This
made her the first woman candidate.
While many historians and authors agree that Woodhull was the first woman to run for President of the
United States, some have questioned that priority given issues with the legality of her run. They disagree
with classifying it as a true candidacy because she was younger than the constitutionally mandated age
of 35. However, election coverage by contemporary newspapers does not suggest age was a significant
issue. The presidential inauguration was in March 1873. Woodhull's 35th birthday was in September
1873.
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Woodhull's campaign was also notable for the nomination of

Frederick Douglass, although he did not take part in it. His
nomination stirred up controversy about the mixing of whites
and blacks in public life and fears of miscegenation (especially
as he had married a much younger white woman after his first
wife died). The Equal Rights Party hoped to use the nominations
to reunite suffragists with African-American civil rights activists,
as the exclusion of female suffrage from the Fifteenth
Amendment two years earlier had caused a substantial rift
between the groups.
Having been vilified in the media for her support of free love,
Woodhull devoted an issue of Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly
(November 2, 1872) to an alleged adulterous affair between
Elizabeth Tilton and Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, a prominent
Protestant minister in New York (he supported female suffrage
but had lectured against free love in his sermons). Woodhull
published the article to highlight what she saw as a sexual
double-standard between men and women.
"Get thee behind me, (Mrs.) Satan!"
That same day, a few days before the presidential election, U.S.
1872 caricature by Thomas Nast:
Federal Marshals arrested Woodhull, her second husband
Wife, carrying heavy burden of
Colonel James Blood, and her sister Tennie C. Claflin on charges
children and drunk husband,
of "publishing an obscene newspaper" because of the content of
admonishing (Mrs.) Satan (Victoria
this issue.[30] The sisters were held in the Ludlow Street Jail for
Woodhull), "I'd rather travel the
the next month, a place normally reserved for civil offenses, but
hardest path of matrimony than
which contained more hardened criminals as well. The arrest was
follow your footsteps." Mrs. Satan's
arranged by Anthony Comstock, the self-appointed moral
sign reads, "Be saved by free love."
defender of the nation at the time. Opponents raised questions
about censorship and government persecution. The three were
acquitted on a technicality six months later, but the arrest prevented Woodhull from attempting to vote
during the 1872 presidential election. With the publication of the scandal, Theodore Tilton, the husband
of Elizabeth, sued Beecher for "alienation of affection." The trial in 1875 was sensationalized across the
nation, and eventually resulted in a hung jury.
Woodhull again tried to gain nominations for the presidency in 1884 and 1892. Newspapers reported that
her 1892 attempt culminated in her nomination by the "National Woman Suffragists' Nominating
Convention" on September 21 of that year. Mary L. Stowe of California was nominated as the candidate
for vice president. The convention was held at Willard's Hotel in Boonville, New York, and Anna M.
Parker was its president. Some woman's suffrage organizations repudiated the nominations, however,
claiming that the nominating committee was unauthorized. Woodhull was quoted as saying that she was
"destined" by "prophecy" to be elected president of the United States in the upcoming election.
Life in England and third marriage
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In October 1876, Woodhull divorced her second husband, Colonel Blood. Less than a year later,
exhausted and possibly depressed, she left for England to start a new life. She made her first public
appearance as a lecturer at St. James's Hall in London on December 4, 1877. Her lecture was called "The
Human Body, the Temple of God," a lecture which she had previously presented in the United States.
Present at one of her lectures was the banker John Biddulph Martin. They began to see each other and
married on October 31, 1883. (His family disapproved of his marriage.)
From then on, she was known as Victoria Woodhull Martin. Under that name, she published the
magazine, The Humanitarian, from 1892 to 1901, with help from her daughter Zula Woodhull. After her
husband died in 1901, Martin gave up publishing and retired to the country, establishing residence at
Bredon's Norton.
Views on abortion and eugenics

Her opposition to abortion is frequently cited by opponents of abortion when writing about first wave
feminism. The most common Woodhull quotations cited by opponents of abortion are:
[t]he rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus. [From an 1870
Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly article]
Every woman knows that if she were free, she would never bear an unwished-for child, nor think
of murdering one before its birth. [From an 1875 edition of the Wheeling, West Virginia Evening
Standard]
One of her articles on abortion that is not cited by opponents of abortion is from the September 23, 1871
issue of the Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly. She wrote:
Abortion is only a symptom of a more deep-seated disorder of the social state. It cannot be put
down by law.... Is there, then, no remedy for all this bad state of things? None, I solemnly believe;
none, by means of repression and law. I believe there is no other remedy possible but freedom in
the social sphere.
Woodhull also promoted eugenics which was popular in the earlier 20th century prior to World War II.
Her interest in eugenics was likely motivated by the profound intellectual impairment of her son. She
advocated, among other things, sex education, "marrying well," and pre-natal care as a way to bear
healthier children and to prevent mental and physical disease. Her writings demonstrate views closer to
those of the anarchist eugenists, rather than the coercive eugenists like Sir Francis Galton. In 2006,
publisher Michael W. Perry claimed in his book "Lady Eugenist" that Woodhull supported the forcible
sterilization of those she considered unfit to breed. He based his claim on a single 1927 New York Times
article in which she said she agreed with the ruling of the case Buck v. Bell. Whether the article
accurately stated her views or not, it stands in stark contrast to her earlier works in which she advocated
social freedom and opposed government interference in matters of love and marriage.
Death
Woodhull, by then Martin, died on June 10, 1927, at Norton Park in Bredon's Norton, Worcestershire,
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near Tewkesbury, England, United Kingdom.[31]
Legacy and honors

A cenotaph of Victoria Woodhull-Martin is located at
Tewkesbury Abbey.[32]
The 1980 Broadway musical Onward Victoria was inspired by
Woodhull's life.[33]
The Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership was founded by
Naomi Wolf and Margot Magowan in 1997.[34]
In 2001, Victoria Woodhull was inducted posthumously into the
National Women's Hall of Fame.[35]
The Woodhull Sexual Freedom Alliance is an American human
rights/sexual freedom advocacy organization, founded in 2003, and named in honor of Victoria
Woodhull.
She was honored by the Office of the Manhattan Borough President in March 2008 and was included in
a map of historical sites related or dedicated to important women.[36]
Victoria Bond composed the opera Mrs. President about Woodhull.[37] It premiered in 2012 in
Anchorage, Alaska.[37]
See also
List of civil rights leaders
List of suffragists and suffragettes
List of women's rights activists
Ezra Heywood
Swami Laura Horos
Onward Victoria
Timeline of women's rights (other than voting)
Timeline of women's suffrage
International Workingmen's Association in America
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Notes
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3. Johnson, 1956, p. 46-47

4. Johnson, 1956, p. 86, p. 87
5. The Revolution, a weekly newspaper founded by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, began
publication two years earlier in 1868.
6. Johnson, 1956, p. 45
7. Goldsmith, Barbara (1998). Other Powers. Alfred A. Knopf. p.20. ISBN0394555368.
8. 1850 federal census, Licking, Ohio; Series M432, Roll 703, Page 437; father listed as Buckman, brothers
incorrectly transcribed as Hubern (Hubert) and Malven (Melvin).
9. Wight, Charles Henry, Genealogy of the Claflin Family, 16611898. New York: Press of William Green.
1903. passim (use index)
10. Gabriel, Mary (1998). Notorious Victoria. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. p.12. ISBN1-56512-132-5.
11. " "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013, index and images, FamilySearch "Marriage records 1849-1854 vol 5
> image 273 of 334; county courthouses, Ohio". familysearch.org. Retrieved 2015-06-09.
12. Underhill, Lois Beachy (1996). The Woman Who Ran for President: The Many Lives of Victoria Woodhull.
Penguin Books. p.24. ISBN0-14-025638-5.
13. "Woodhull, Zula Maude". Who's Who 59: 1930. 1907.
14. Johnson, 1956, p. 47
15. Dubois and Dumenil, //Through Women's Eyes: An American History with Documents//. (Bedford; St.
Martin's, 2012)
16. DuBois and Dumenil. //Through Women's Eyes: An American History with Documents//. (Bedford; St
Martin's, 2012)
17. Intercourse (1987). Chapter 7. Occupation/Collaboration (http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/dworkin
/IntercourseII.html). Andrea Dworkin
18. "And the truth shall make you free." A speech on the principles of social freedom, delivered in Steinway hall,
Nov. 20, 1871, by Victoria C. Woodhull, pub. Woodhull & Claflin, NY, NY 1871. [1] (http://memory.loc.gov
/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=rbnawsa&fileName=n8216//rbnawsan8216.db&recNum=0&itemLink=r?ammem
/nawbib:@field%28NUMBER+@od1%28rbnawsa+n8216%29%29&linkText=0&presId=nawbib)
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http://www.victoria-woodhull.com/prostitute.htm
20. Shearer, Mary L. "Frequently Asked Questions about Victoria Woodhull." http://www.victoria-woodhull.com
/faq.htm#who
21. Johnson, 1956, p. 86
22. "Please wait...". interactive.ancestry.com. Retrieved 2016-04-30.
23. Johnson, 1956, p. 87
24. Constitutional equality. To the Hon. the Judiciary committee of the Senate and the House of representatives
of the Congress of the United States ... Most respectfully submitted. Victoria C. Woodhull. Dated New York,
January 2, 1871 (http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?rbpebib:1:./temp/~ammem_enxC::)
25. Susan Kullmann, "Legal Contender... Victoria C. Woodhull, First Woman to Run for President"
(http://feministgeek.com/teaching-learning/woodhull/). Accessed 2009.05.29.
26. Messer-Kruse, Timothy (1998). The Yankee International: Marxism and the American Reform Tradition,
18481876. pp.24.
27. "Notes on the "American split" ". May 28, 1872. Retrieved 2010-08-05.
28. "Please wait...". interactive.ancestry.com. Retrieved 2016-04-30.
29. A Lecture on Constitutional Equality, also known as The Great Secession Speech, speech to Woman's
Suffrage Convention, New York, May 11, 1871, excerpt quoted in Gabriel, Mary, Notorious Victoria: The
Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored (Chapel Hill, N.Car.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1st ed. 1998
(ISBN 1-56512-132-5)), pp. 8687 & n. [13] (author Mary Gabriel journalist, Reuters News Service). Also
excerpted, differently, in Underhill, Lois Beachy, The Woman Who Ran for President: The Many Lives of
Victoria Woodhull (Bridgehampton, N.Y.: Bridge Works, 1st ed. 1995 (ISBN 1-882593-10-3)), pp. 125126
& unnumbered n.
30. "Arrest of Victoria Woodhull, Tennie C. Claflin and Col. Blood. They are Charged with Publishing an
Obscene Newspaper.". New York Times. November 3, 1872. Retrieved 2008-06-27. "The agent of the
Society for the Suppression of Obscene Literature, yesterday morning, appeared before United States
Commissioner Osborn and asked for a warrant for the arrest of Mrs. Victoria C. Woodhull and Miss Tennie
..."
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31. "Victoria Martin, Suffragist, Dies. Nominated for President of the United States as Mrs. Woodhull in 1872.
Leader of Many Causes. Had Fostered Anglo-American Friendship Since She Became Wife of a Britisher
...". New York Times. June 11, 1927. Retrieved 2008-06-27.
32. Photo taken by RobertFrost1960 on September 21, 2010 (https://secure.flickr.com/photos/32157648@N08
/5019811422/), accessed June 9, 2011.
33. The Performing Arts: A Guide to the Reference Literature. Libraries Unlimited.
34. Woodhull Institute (http://woodhull.tv/about/); Retrieved 3 April 2013
35. "National Women's Hall of Fame". Greatwomen.org. Retrieved 2013-02-17.
36. "Women's Rights, Historic Sites Location List". Office of Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer.
37. Dunham, Mike. "ANCHORAGE: Review: Opera about first woman to run for president debuts in Anchorage
| Arts and Culture". ADN.com. Retrieved 2013-02-17.
Further reading
Brough, James. The Vixens. Simon & Schuster, 1980. ISBN 0-671-22688-6
Caplan, Sheri J. Petticoats and Pinstripes: Portraits of Women in Wall Street's History. Praeger, 2013. ISBN
978-1-4408-0265-2
Carpenter, Cari M. Selected Writings of Victoria Woodhull: Suffrage, Free Love, and Eugenics, Lincoln:
University of Nebraska Press, 2010
Frisken, Amanda. Victoria Woodhull's Sexual Revolution, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. ISBN
0-8122-3798-6
Gabriel, Mary. Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull Uncensored, Algonquin Books of Chapel
Hill, 1998, 372 pages. ISBN 1-56512-132-5
Goldsmith, Barbara. Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria
Woodhull, New York: Harper Perennial, 1998, 531 pages. ISBN 0-06-095332-2
Johnson, Gerald W. 1956. "Dynamic Victoria Woodhull" (http://www.americanheritage.com/content
/dynamic-victoria-woodhull). American Heritage Volume 7, No. 4, June 1956
MacPherson, Myra (2014). The scarlet sisters: sex, suffrage, and scandal in the Gilded Age (First ed.). New
York, NY: Twelve. ISBN9780446570237. LCCN2013027618. biography of Victoria Woodhull and
Tennessee Celeste Claflin
Marberry, M.M. Vicky. Funk & Wagnalls, New York. 1967
Meade, Marion. Free Woman, Alfred A. Knopf, Harper & Brothers, 1976
Sachs, Emanie. The Terrible Siren, Harper & Brothers, 1928
The Staff of the Historian's Office and National Portrait Gallery. 'If Elected...' Unsuccessful candidates for the
presidency 17961968. Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Offices, 1972
Stern, Madeleine B., ed., The Victoria Woodhull Reader, Weston, Mass.: M&S Press, 1974
Underhill, Lois Beachy, The Woman Who Ran for President: The Many Lives of Victoria Woodhull
(Bridgehampton, N.Y.: Bridge Works, 1st ed. 1995 (ISBN 1-882593-10-3))
Publications
Antje Schrupp, Das Aufsehen erregende Leben der Victoria Woodhull (2002: Helmer).
Woodhull, Victoria C., Free Lover: Sex, Marriage and Eugenics in the Early Speeches of Victoria Woodhull
(Seattle, 2005). Four of her most important early and radical speeches on sexuality as facsimiles of the
original published versions. Includes: "The Principle of Social Freedom" (1872), "The Scare-crows of Sexual
Slavery" (1873), "The Elixir of Life" (1873), and "Tried as by Fire" (187374). ISBN 1-58742-050-3.
Woodhull, Victoria C., Lady Eugenist: Feminist Eugenics in the Speeches and Writings of Victoria Woodhull
(Seattle, 2005). Seven of her most important speeches and writings on eugenics. Five are facsimiles of the
original, published versions. Includes: "ChildrenTheir Rights and Privileges" (1871), "The Garden of
Eden" (1875, publ. 1890), "Stirpiculture" (1888), "Humanitarian Government" (1890), "The Rapid
Multiplication of the Unfit" (1891), and "The Scientific Propagation of the Human Race" (1893). ISBN
1-58742-040-6.
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Woodhull, Victoria C., Constitutional equality the logical result of the XIV and XV Amendments, which not
only declare who are citizens, but also define their rights, one of which is the right to vote without regard to
sex. New York: 1870.
Woodhull, Victoria C., The Origin, Tendencies and Principles of Government, or, A Review of the Rise and
Fall of Nations from Early Historic Time to the Present. New York: Woodhull, Claflin & Company, 1871.
Woodhull, Victoria C., Speech of Victoria C. Woodhull on the great political issue of constitutional equality,
delivered in Lincoln Hall, Washington, Cooper Institute, New York Academy of Music, Brooklyn, Academy of
Music, Philadelphia, Opera House, Syracuse: together with her secession speech delivered at Apollo Hall.
1871.
Woodhull, Victoria C. Martin, "The Rapid Multiplication of the Unfit". New York, 1891.
Davis, Paulina W., ed. A history of the national woman's rights movement for twenty years. New York:
Journeymen Printers' Cooperative Association, 1871.
Riddle, A.G., The Right of women to exercise the elective franchise under the Fourteenth Article of the
Constitution: speech of A.G. Riddle in the Suffrage Convention at Washington, January 11, 1871: the
argument was made in support of the Woodhull memorial, before the Judiciary Committee of the House of
Representatives, and reproduced in the Convention. Washington: 1871.
External links
Weston, Victoria. America's Victoria, Remembering Victoria Woodhull (http://www.imdb.com/title
/tt0963742) features Gloria Steinem and actress Kate Capshaw. Zoie Films Productions (1998).
PBS and Canadian Broadcasts.
Woodhull on harvard.edu (http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/woodhull.html)
Biographical timeline (http://www.nwhp.org/tlp/biographies/woodhull/woodhull_bio.html)
Horowitz, "Victoria Woodhull, Anthony Comstock, and Conflict over Sex in the United States in
the 1870s" (http://www.historycooperative.org/cgi-bin/justtop.cgi?act=justtop&url=http:
//www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/87.2/horowitz.html), The Journal of American History,
February 1987
STEPHANIE ATHEY, "Eugenic Feminisms in Late Nineteenth-Century America: Reading Race
in Victoria Woodhull, Frances Willard, Anna Julia Cooper and Ida B. Wells"
(http://www.genders.org/g31/g31_athey.txt), Genders Journal, 2000
"Legal Contender... Victoria C. Woodhull: First Woman to Run for President"
(http://feministgeek.com/teaching-learning/woodhull/), The Women's Quarterly (Fall 1988)
Victoria Woodhull (http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/topics/woodhull.html), Topics in Chronicling
America, Library of Congress
"A lecture on constitutional equality," delivered at Lincoln hall, Washington, D.C., Thursday,
February 16, 1871, by Victoria C. Woodhul (http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?nawbib:3:.
/temp/~ammem_baJv::@@@mdb=mcc,nawbib,suffrg,mnwp,rbcmillerbib,awh,awhbib),
American Memory, Library of Congress
A history of the national woman's rights movement, for twenty years, with the proceedings of the
decade meeting held at Apollo hall, October 20, 1870, from 1850 to 1870, with an appendix
containing the history of the movement during the winter of 1871, in the national capitol, comp.
by Paulina W. Davis. (http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?nawbib:1:.
"And the truth shall make you free." A speech on the principles of social freedom, delivered in
Steinway hall, Nov. 20, 1871, by Victoria C. Woodhull (http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query
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"Tried as by Fire" at the University of South Carolina Library's Digital Collections Page
(http://www.sc.edu/library/digital/collections/woodhull.html)
"Victoria Claflin Woodhull". Suffragist, Social Reformer. Find a Grave. Apr 9, 2004. Retrieved
Aug 17, 2011.
Movie review: "America's Victoria, Remembering Victoria Woodhull"
(http://www.historycooperative.org/cgi-bin/justtop.cgi?act=justtop&url=http:
//www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/86.3/mr_11.html), The American Journal of History
America's Victoria: Remembering Victoria Woodhull (1998) (TV) (http://www.imdb.com/title
/tt0963742/) at the Internet Movie Database
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Victoria Claflin Woodhull, later Victoria Woodhull

In 1872, Woodhull was the first female candidate for

Victoria California Claflin

June 9, 1927 (aged88)

Byron and Zula Maude Woodhull