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The improbable Victoria Woodhull : suffrage, free love, and the first woman to run for president

The improbable Victoria Woodhull : suffrage, free love, and the first woman to run for president

Book 2025

"From the acclaimed author of What the Ermine Saw and Behaving Badly, a portrait of Victoria Woodhull, a celebrated and maligned 19th-century businesswoman and activist and a leader in the fight for women's suffrage and labor reforms. In 1894, a remarkably self-possessed American woman, with no formal education to speak of, stood before a British court seeking damages for libel from the trustees of the British Museum. It was yet another stop alon...