The revolutionary life of Victoria Claflin Woodhull, the first woman to run for the US presidency
The nineteenth-century campaign for social equality, sexual revolution and spiritualism
To her enemies, she was Mrs Satan. To Walt Whitman, she was “a prophecy of the future”. To Gloria Steinem, from the vantage point of the 1970s, she was “the most controversial suffragist of them all”…
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