Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull

Victoria Woodhull's Campaign for U.S. President, 1872

Woodhull, Victoria

Victoria Woodhull, a medical clairvoyant, stock broker, and newspaper publisher, was born into a poor family in Homer, Ohio. A hard-luck marriage to an alcoholic at the age of 15 made it necessary that she support her family. In 1867 she t…