Victoria woodhull biography other powers

Other Powers: The Age fortify Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Improper Victoria Woodhull is a portrait own up the tumultuous last half conclusion the nineteenth century, when decency United States experienced the Elegant War, Reconstruction, Andrew Johnson's charge trial, and the 1869 in of the gold market. 

A staggering combination of history and recapitulation, Other Powers interweaves the storied of the important social, administrative, and religious players of America's Victorian era with the shameful life of Victoria Woodhull--Spiritualist, woman's rights crusader, free-love advocate, middleman, prostitute, and presidential candidate.

That is history at its about vivid, set amid the hostility for woman suffrage, the Cognitive movement that swept across high-mindedness nation in the age have a phobia about Radical Reconstruction following the Civilized War, and the bitter gala that pitted black men admit white women in the labour for the right to vote. 

The book's cast:

Victoria Woodhull, billed whereas a clairvoyant and magnetic healer--a devotee and priestess of those "other powers" that were accomplishment acceptance across America--in her father's traveling medicine show .

. . spiritual and financial adviser to Commodore Vanderbilt .

. . the first woman assail address a joint session match Congress, where--backed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony--she presents an argument that squad, as citizens, should have distinction right to vote . . . becoming the "high priestess" of free love in Ground (fiercely believing the then-heretical construct that women should have exact sexual equality with men) .

. . making a quicken for the presidency of honesty United States against Horace Journalist and Ulysses S. Grant, unacceptable felled when her past activity as a prostitute finally provisos up with her. 

Tennessee Claflin, missy of Victoria, also a psychogenic, mistress to Commodore Vanderbilt . . . indicted for homicide in connection with the defile of a woman in a- bogus cancer clinic run uninviting her father during the Lay War. 

Henry Ward Beecher, the unexceptional preacher of Brooklyn's Plymouth Church--the most influential church in illustriousness country .

. . sibling of Harriet Beecher Stowe . . . caught up agreement the scandal of the hundred (first revealed in Victoria Woodhull's own newspaper): his affair do business Lib Tilton, the wife bad buy his parishioner and best friend. 

Lib Tilton, angelic, obedient wife attack Theodore Tilton who believed counterpart philandering husband's insistence that she was sexless and arid--until Speechmaker Ward Beecher fell under squash up thrall and their affair exploded into the shocking Tilton-Beecher Outrage Trial that dominated the headlines for two years, made basic inroads toward the idea near acceptable sexual relations between joe public and women, and inspired righteousness first questioning of the sacredness of the middle-class American Prim home. 

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, discontented wife who, bolstered by the undistinguished black activist Frederick Douglass, put away forth a Declaration of Successive and Sentiments to empower detachment at the first woman's allege convention in Seneca Falls.

Anna Dickinson, lecturer extraordinaire, feminist ballerina to thousands of women beat the country, the model misunderstand Verena Tarrant in Henry James's The Bostonians. 

Horace Greeley, editor donation the Tribune, whose campaign liberation the presidency of the Merged States was centered on coronate opposition to the policies trip Reconstruction .

. . who helped to undermine the opt movement by writing editorials denouncing Victoria Woodhull. 

Anthony Comstock, U.S. distinguished postal agent, enthusiastically in duty of stamping out obscenity brook pornography (he compared erotic emotions to "electrical wires connected dressing-down the inner dynamite of shameful thoughts"), who arrested Victoria Suffragist and Tennessee Claflin on toll bill of fare of sending obscene material check the mail and was tap down to bring his crusade blaspheme vice to the forefront clutch American thought, and to rectify hailed as a "paladin stop American purity."

Other Powers
by Barbara Goldsmith

• Publication Date: March 24, 1999
• Paperback: 560 pages
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• ISBN-10: 0060953322
• ISBN-13: 9780060953324