blackmailers of wife and, 259, 261
death of, 298
Cook, Senator, 73, 78
Cook, Son & Company, 257
Cooke, Jay, 47
Cooper Institute, 151, 153, 175
government failure lecture, 219–21
Victoria’s disguised lecture at, 201–202
Corsican Brothers, The, 16, 17
Cosmopolitical Party, platform of, 95–96, 303–307
Cotton, Mr., 215–18
Coventry, Earl of, 291
Crawford, Frances (Frank), 40
Cuckoo, The, 253–54
Cummings, Dr., 208
D
Davis, General Noah, 187, 206
Davis, Paulina Wright, 75, 79, 83–84, 120, 123, 158
Beecher-Tilton scandal and, 107, 184
“Declaration of Principles” (Seneca Falls), 29
Democratic Party, 59, 95, 178
Demosthenes (spirit voice), 31, 32, 132, 145, 150, 270–71
Denyse, William, 188
depression of 1876, 241
Detroit Sunday News-Tribune, 293
de Vay, Baron Nicholas, 293
Dickens, Charles, 71, 203
Dickinson, Anna, 91, 132
Douglass, Frederick, 37
illustrated, 173
nominated as vice president, 171–72
Drew, Daniel, 34, 47
Dykman, Judge J. O., 242
E
Edward II, King, 293
Ehrenberg, Dr., 128
Eldridge, Senator, 73, 76
Ellery, George, 210
Epstein, Jacob, 256
Equal Rights Party, 125, 126, 130, 193
nominating convention of, 170–72
platform and resolutions of, 171
reconstitution of, 264
Erie Railroad, 34
Evans, Rosina, 289
F
Field, Kate, 91
financial crash of 1873, 219, 221
Fisk, Jim, 34, 46, 88, 175
Fisk & Hatch, 50
Fourth National Bank, 46
Fowler, Judge, 193
Fox, Kate and Margaret, 10–11
Frank Leslie’s Budget of Fun, 150
free love, 60, 63, 98, 108, 150
confrontation concerning, at spiritualist convention, 215–18
defined, 96–97
hypocritical attitude toward, 111, 117–18
speech on, see “Principles of Social Freedom” speech
“Tried As By Fire” speech and, 223–24
Victoria’s renouncing of, 246, 253–54
French Ball, 195, 226, 227
Fuller, Margaret, 27
Fullerton, Judge, 226
G
Gage, John, 130
Gage, Matilda Joslyn, 164
“Garden of Eden: or, Paradise Lost and Found, The,” 241–42
Garrison, William Lloyd, 37
German American Progressive Association, 128–29
Gilsey House, 175, 176–77
Gleichen, Countess Helena, 292–93
Golden Age, The, 92–93, 120, 125–26, 190
Goldschmidt, Otto, 93
Gould, Jay, 34, 40
“government failure” speech, 219–21
Grand Central Hotel, 154
Grant, Ulysses S., 23, 174, 178, 193
Greeley, Horace, 58, 62, 68, 90, 97, 112, 116, 132
election of 1872 and, 174, 175, 178, 190
Greenwich Bank, 50
Greenwood Cemetery, 213
Griffing, Josephine S., 75, 78
H
Harned, S. W., 48
Harper, Ida, 169
Harper’s, 34, 166
Hastings, Hugh, 47, 48
Hatch, Rufus, 48
Hawkins Zouave Band, 154
Hearth and Home, 121–22
Henriques, George, 48
Hermes Lodge, 296
Hoffman House, 42
Holbrooke, Judge Edmund S., 215
Holland, Penelope, 249–50
Holland, Robert, 284, 287
Hooker, Isabella Beecher, 74–75, 78, 158, 164, 169, 183
supports Victoria, 89–90, 97–98, 107–108
after split from NWSA, 172, 174
Howe, William F.:
described, 188, 194
as sisters’ lawyer, 189, 193, 201, 202–203, 206
Hudson, Deacon, 191
Hull, Moses, 171
“Human Body, the Temple of God, The,” 247
Humanitarian, The, 243, 264
articles in, 278–79, 291
after Martin’s death, 286
Martin’s obituary, 284
last issue of, 288
success of, 266
Zula and, 285
human rights, 168
Hummel, Abraham H., 189
described, 188
hypocrisy, 107–108, 119, 175, 176
free love and, 111, 117–18
lecture concerning, 200–201
I
Illustrated, 59
“Impending Revolution” speech, 160–63
delivery of, 161–62
reaction to, 162–63
turnout for, 160–61
Independent, The, 58–59, 107, 118, 150, 189
Tilton at, 114, 116, 117
individual freedom, 96
International Agricultural Club and School of Intensive Petite Culture, 291–92
International Workingmen’s Association (IWA), 123–25, 174
Byrnes and, 151–52, 259, 261
funeral marches of, 151–56
ousting of Victoria’s section of, 156–57, 163
J
Jackson, Captain, 261–62
Jacquelin, John R., 48
James, Henry, Sr., 62
Jarvis, Judson, 203
Jay Cooke & Co., 219
Jefferson Market Court, 194
Jefferson Market prison, 188
Joan of Arc, 102, 132
Johnson, Andrew, 34
Jordan, Mr., 211
Julian, George, 172
K
Kant, Immanuel, 300
Kemble, Fanny, 92
L
labor movement, 123–25, 163
growing consensus against, 174
W & C’s Weekly and, 160
Ladies Automobile Club, 290
Lady Cook & Co., 298
Leclercq, Mme., 155
Lee, Robert E., 23
“Legend of Good Women, A,” 120
Leland, Mrs. H. S., 155
Lemont, Charles A., 48
Le Roy, H. R., 48
Leslie, Frank, 59, 150
Lewis, Sinclair, 106
Liberal Republicans, 174, 178
“Life Sketches,” 250–51
Lincoln, Abraham, 19, 20, 23, 25, 105
Lind, Jenny, 93
Livermore, Mary, 37, 59, 119, 120
lobbyists, 82
Lockwood, Belva, 262
London Times, 250, 270–73
Loughridge, Senator, 73, 78, 82
Ludlow Street jail, 187–97, 202
M
McFarland Case, 141
Magnetic Healing Institute, 165, 166
magnetism, 20, 34
Manhattan Club-house, 155
Manor House Club, 292–93
Mansfield, Josie, 88
marriage, nineteenth century, 12–14, 22, 62, 148–49
children and, 214–15
costs of divorce, 139
free love and, 96–97
speech concerning, see “Principles of Social Freedom” speech
Victoria’s position on, 37–39, 196–97, 222–24
Martin, John Biddulph:
courtship and marriage, 250–55
Victoria’s past and, 250–54
defense of Victoria, 259–63
Martin v. British Museum, 268–76
described, 247–48, 284
family of, 251, 262, 285, 286–87
home of, 256
illnes
s and death of, 281–84
ashes of, 284, 287
sense of loss following, 285–86
will and, 285
illustrated, 266
love notes, to and from Victoria, 251, 256–57, 262, 276–77, 282–83
illustrated, 260
in Philadelphia, 259
resemblance of his sister’s writings to Victoria’s, 249–50
Martin, Julia, 252
Martin, Richard, 252
Martin, Robert, 281, 285
Marx, Karl, 123, 125, 156
Maxwell, Mr., 195
Melland, Dr. Brian, 283–84
Miles, Channing, 187
Miles, Enos, 10
Miles, Margaret Ann (Maggie), 10, 20, 32
death of Dr. Woodhull and, 165–66
Mill, John Stuart, 240
Minor, Francis, 38
Minor, Virginia, 38
Modern Times, 30, 96
Moffat, Mayor, 221
Monsieur New York, 203
Moon, Washington, 274
Moony & Boland, 261
“Moral Cowardice & Modern Hypocrisy,” 200–201
Morning Post, 291
Mott, Lucretia, 3, 29, 91, 92, 94, 120
split in women’s rights movement and, 38, 60
Moulton, Frank, 140, 141, 145, 230, 237
Plymouth Church investigation and, 230, 232, 233
“My Wife and I,” 105–106, 234
disclaimer of, 133–34
N
“Naked Truth, The,” 201
Nast, Thomas, 166
National Committee of Women, 79
National Female Suffrage Convention, 37, 38
National Guard’s Ninth Regiment, 175
National Woman’s Rights Convention, 37–38, 78–81
National Woman’s Suffrage Association (NWSA), 79, 92
conventions of, 94–96, 158–59, 164
Victoria’s departure from, 166–69, 172, 174
formation of, 60–61
Nelson, Judge, 238
newspapers, 58–59
New York by Gaslight, 16
New York City in 1868, 32–33
New York Commercial Advertiser, The, 58
New York County Bank, 50
New York Dispatch, 55
New York Evening Journal, 262
New York Evening Post, 58
New York Evening Telegraph, 124
New York Herald, 1, 2, 49, 56, 58, 61, 77, 94, 136, 151, 219
Claflin-Blood lawsuit and, 99–105
“Impending Revolution” speech, 160–61
interviews Victoria and Tennie, 42–45, 51–52
People’s Party convention and, 170
scandal issue and, 186–87, 188, 212, 237
Victoria’s statement about, 195–97
“Social Freedom” speeches and, 144–49, 214, 215
New York Stock Exchange, 1–3
New York Sun, 1, 66, 171, 175, 176, 221, 258, 259
death of Dr. Woodhull and, 165–66
illness of Victoria and, 208–209
“Impending Revolution” speech and, 160, 161
IWA funeral marches and, 151, 153
opening of Woodhull, Claflin & Co., 47–48
scandal issue and, 186, 190, 193, 237, 238
Tennie and:
congressional bid, 128–29
court case, 52, 53
New York Times, The, 124, 144
“Impending Revolution” speech and, 162–63
scandal issue and, 186, 190, 212, 228
Victoria’s letters to, 110–13, 114
New York Tribune, 58, 62, 90, 112, 116, 174, 237
praises Victoria, 97
New York World, 46–47, 50, 58, 65, 170
IWA funeral marches and, 154–55, 156
Victoria’s attempt to vote and, 136–38
Northern Pacific Railroad, 219
Norton Park mansion, 286–90
Norwood (Beecher), 107
Noyes, John Humphrey, 30, 265
O
Oneida, 30, 265
Orations of Demosthenes, The, 32
Osborne Commissioner, 187
P
Paris Commune, 123, 124, 125, 170, 261
defeat of, 151
Park & Tifford, 50
Paul, St., 120, 121
Paulist socialism, 240
People’s Convention, 164
People’s Party, 164, 166–69
nominating convention of, 170–72
Phelps, District Attorney, 203
Phillips, Wendell, 37
Plymouth Church, 107, 116, 178, 179
Beecher-Tilton scandal and, see Beecher-Tilton scandal, Plymouth Church and
“Political, Social, Industrial and Educational Equity,” 171
Polk, James, 10
Pollock, Judge Baron, 271–75
Pomeroy, Senator Samuel Clarke, 74
“Present Revision of Morals and Laws, The,” 298
Press of Philadelphia, The, 73, 74–75
“Primary Synopsis of Universology,” 62
“Principles of Social Freedom” speech, 138–50
basis for, 138–39
Rev. Beecher and, 139–42, 145
Brooker and, 147–48
delivery of, 146–49
divorce and, 139
placards announcing, 143–44
reaction to, 149–50
Tilton and, 140, 141–42, 147, 148
introduction by, 145–46, 150
turnout for, 144–45
Professional Criminals of America (Byrnes), 26
promiscuity, 97
prostitution, 58, 64, 177
Treat’s pamphlet and, 234
Psyche Club, 221–22
Purdy, Mr., 211–12
R
Rapid Multiplication of the Unfit, The (Martin), 265
Rees, T. W., 187
Regan, Edward, 188, 189
Republican Party, 59–60, 68, 95
election of 1872 and, 174
Revolution, The, 41, 54, 59
Reymart, Judge, 103, 210
Victoria’s attempt to vote and, 136–38
Roosevelt, Theodore, 298
Rossel, Louis Nathaniel, 151
funeral marches in honor of, 151–56
Russell, Attorney General Sir Charles, 269–75
S
St. Barnabas Charity School, 156
St. James Hall, 267
Sand, George, 59, 92
San Francisco in the 1850s, 15–16
Saywell, Reverend William J. E., 289
“Scarecrows of Social Freedom, The,” 214–15, 249
Schoenberg, Miss, 262
scientific agriculture, 291–92
“Scientific Propagation of the Human Race, The,” 267
Scotland Yard, 258
Second Great Awakening, 11
Seneca Falls women’s rights convention, 29–30
Shepherd, Mrs., 226
Shipman, Judge, 192
Skidmore Light Guard, 154
slavery, abolition of, 37, 158
prime movers in, 196
Smith, Police Commissioner Henry, 155, 156
Smith, Laura Cuppy, 172
Smith, William, 188
social engineering, 265, 267
social science, 265
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 278
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 278
Sorge, Frederich, 156–57
Sparr, Mary, 10, 20, 32
Claflin-Blood lawsuit and, 100–104
Spencer Grays, 176
spiritualism:
Anna Claflin and, 102, 104
conventions:
in Boston, 178–79
in Chicago, 215–18
in Cleveland, 134
in Troy, N.Y., 131–32
in Vineland, N.J., 130–31, 214–15
Miles and, 165
prostitution and, 21
sexuality and, 23
spirit rappings, 10–11
split in movement, 214, 215, 218, 233, 241
Tilton on, 121, 122
Vanderbilt and, 34, 36, 245–46
see also under Claflin, Tennessee; Woodhull, Victoria C.
Spiritualists of Northern Ohio, 134
Spotted Tail, 172
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 4, 29, 41, 59, 94, 158, 164, 167
Beecher-Tilton scandal and, 107, 184, 193, 204
death of, 297–98
as defender of Victoria, 91–92, 119–20, 251
illustrated, 85
NWSA convention and, 167, 168
split in women’s rights movement and, 37–38, 60, 61
Stearns, Sarah Burger, 97
Steinway Hall, 166–68, 172
Steinway Hall speech, see “Principles of Social Freedom” speech
Stephen, Leslie, 256
stirpiculture, 265
Stone, Lucy, 37, 59, 120
Story of Henry Ward Beecher and Theodore Tilton and Mrs. Tilton with Portraits, The, 268–76
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 19, 135, 181
attacks Victoria, 105–106, 133, 234
disclaimer, 133–34
Beecher-Tilton scandal and, 198, 200
illustrated, 199
suffrage, women’s, 138
alienation of the suffragists, 159
Article IV of the Constitution and, 68, 69
Congressional address by Victoria, 69–87
Hooker’s homage to Victoria, 172, 174
leadership of, 94–95
split in women’s movement over, 37–38, 60–61, 158, 168
Victoria’s attempt to vote, 136–38
Sulgrave Manor, 296
Sulgrave Movement, 296
Sutherland, Duchess of, 290
Sutherland, Judge, 225, 226–28
Swendenborg, Emanuel, 63, 132
Swindell, Annie L., 89
T
Taylor’s Hotel, 202
telegraph, 11
Teliki, Count Samu, 293
Tewkesburg Abbey, 301
Thoreau, Henry David, 96, 107
“Thunderbolt, The,” 205
Tilton, Elizabeth, 200, 232
affair with Beecher, see Beecher-Tilton scandal
death of, 297
Tilton, Theodore, 58–59, 154
Beecher’s affair with wife of, see Beecher-Tilton scandal
on Blood, 23
on Claflin family, 11, 18, 20
comeback of, 178
death of, 297
as defender of Victoria, 92–93, 113, 120–22
described, 114
election of 1872 and, 174, 175, 190
expulsion from Plymouth Church, 230–31
illustrated, 114
NWSA and, 60–61
“Social Freedom” speech and, 140, 141–42, 147, 148
aftermath of, 150
introduction to, 145–46
sues Beecher, 233
Victoria’s documents and, 237–39
on Victoria, 118, 132
as biographer, 120–21, 125, 250, 280
retarded son and, 19
as a spiritualist, 18, 121, 122, 125, 130
as Victoria’s lover, 118, 127
manipulated silence and, 131