Victoria’s admission, 131–32
on Woodhull, 12, 13, 16
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 108
Tombs, the, 203, 205, 225, 226
Townsend, Hilo A., 91
Tracey, Warden, 188, 189, 192, 193
Train, George Francis, 189–90
described, 189, 205
Train Ligue, 189
Travers, W. R., 48
Treat, Joseph, 205
pamphlet of, denouncing Victoria, 233–34, 252, 253
Treatise on Domestic Economy (Beecher), 106
Treaty of Ghent, 296
“Tried As By Fire, or The True and The False, Socially,” 222–24
Truman, Mrs., 228–29
“Truth Crushed to Earth,” 252–53
Tweed, William Marcy “Boss,” 89
Twin Mountain House, 133
“Two Sirens of New York,” 262
U
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), 19, 105, 106
utopian communities, 30
V
Vanderbilt, Commodore Cornelius, 14, 104, 257
appeal to, by Victoria and Tennie, 235–36
described, 33–34
second marriage of, 40, 113, 165
Victoria League and, 125–26
will of, 245–47
Woodhull, Claflin & Co. and, 2, 36, 40–46, 165
Vanderbilt, Cornelius Jeremiah, 36, 245
Vanderbilt, Sophia, 34
Vanderbilt, William, 40, 245–47
Vanderbilt family, 161, 245–47
Van Schalck, Edward, 47, 48
Veteran Guards (85th Regiment), 175–76
Victoria, Queen, 293
Victoria League, 125–26, 132
von Riepenshausen, Baron, 293
W
Wadley, Mr., 187
Wales, Prince of, 296
Walker, Robert, 48
Warner, Mrs., 263
Warren, John K., 48
Warren, Josiah, 96
Warwick Hostel, Lady, 291
Washington, George, 296
Washington Evening Star, 39, 75
Webster, Sir Richard, 269, 273
Wheelock, M. A., 48
Whyos, 188
Williams and Gray, 46
Williams Mound Farm, 7, 9
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 29–30, 92
“Woman in Agriculture,” 291
Woman’s Journal, The, 59, 119
Women’s Land Fete, 296
women’s rights, 196–97, 265
divided movement, 37–38, 60–61, 158, 168–69
double standard and, 88–89, 107–108, 111–12, 119
early advocates of, 29–30
energizing the movement, 88, 94
marriage and, see marriage, nineteenth century
suffrage, see suffrage, women’s
Woodhall & Claflin’s Journal, 252–54
Woodhull, Byron, 205
illustrated, 294
as mentally retarded, 2, 14, 19, 56, 101, 223, 292
provision for, in mother’s will, 300
Woodhull, Canning:
as alcoholic, 13–16, 166, 227
death of, 165–66, 213
marriage of, 12–13, 23
post-divorce living arrangements, 101, 102, 105, 110, 112
Woodhull, Victoria C.:
as actress, 16
ambition, accusation of, 88, 95
attempts to vote, 136–38
“autobiographies” of, 279–80
Beecher family and, 105–109, 116–18, 133, 140
see also Beecher-Tilton scandal
birth of, 7–9
Butler and, 68–70
call for revolution, 86–87, 97, 160–63, 219–21
Congressional address of, 69–87, 159, 169, 200, 264
death of, 300–301
defenders of, 89–93, 113–22, 158–59, 172, 174
described, 3, 135
appearance, 21
in Byrnes’s book, 261
clothing, 43, 66, 75, 102, 161, 170, 186, 220
by The Evening Star, 39
in London, 1892, 265–66
at London lecture, 247
near end of life, 297
by Stowe, 198, 200
by Tilton, 120
by Treat, 234
after Troy, N.Y., speech, 131–32
women’s rights, 2–3
divorce from Blood, 242, 253, 254
education of, 9, 29, 30
in England:
“amazing good fortune” of, 285
Bredon’s Norton, see Bredon’s Norton, England
early reception in, 246
husband and, see Martin, John Biddulph
lecture series, 247
Martin family, 251, 262, 285, 286–87
publishing career, see Humanitarian, The
returns to public life, 264–67
Vanderbilt’s payoff and, 246
as Victoria Woodhall, 250–54
vindication of, 268–76
as wife and mother, 262, 264
expunged from history of women’s movement, 4, 169
fear of disease, 286, 297
financial ruin of, 165, 175–78, 204, 208, 217
Congressional petition and, 235
financial crash of 1873 and, 221–22
Vanderbilt’s will and, 245–47
“firsts” of, 3–4, 73, 156, 193
free love issue and, see free love
gossip about, 88, 91–92
as head of Woodhull household, 14–19, 165
ill health of, 208–10, 219–20, 235, 241
blame for, 253
illustrated, ii, 5, 27, 49, 71, 181, 243, 266
IWA and, see International Workingmen’s Association (IWA)
on lecture circuit, 130–35, 222
Academy of Music speech, see “Impending Revolution” speech
canceled Boston appearance, 198, 200
Cooper Institute, 201–202, 219–21
in England, 247, 267
income from, 165, 204–205, 235
last speech, 267
popularity and, 204–205
Springfield, Massachusetts, 200–201
Steinway Hall speech, see “Principles of Social Freedom” speech
letters to The New York Times, 110–13, 114
marriages of:
first, 12–14, 223
second, 23, 25, 29, 200, 242, 253, 254
third, see Martin, John Biddulph
at Murray Hill mansion, 55–56, 65–66, 100, 102, 114, 127–28, 165
other women reformers and, 4, 54, 73–81, 87, 90
split from, 168–69
presidential bid of, 4, 54–57
charges against the current government, 164–65
collapse of, 175, 178, 193
external political realignment and, 174
nominating convention, 170–72
People’s Party and, 164, 166–69
platform for, 95–96
public response to, 56–57
second, 254
third, 264, 266–67
Victoria League and, 125–26
as “Queen Victoria/Mrs. Satan,” 3, 166, 198
religion and, 240–41, 265
Rossel funeral marches and, 151–56
serialized as Audacia Dangyereyes, 105–106, 133–34
spiritualism and, 8, 11, 21
abandonment of, 236, 240–41
in biography, 121, 122, 125, 130
British Museum trial and, 270–72
conventions, 130–32, 134, 178–79, 214–18
healing, 18, 19
spirit voice, 16–17, 19, 31, 32, 132, 145, 150, 270–71
Victoria’s private life and, 215–18, 233
as stockbroker, see Woodhull, Claflin & Co.
Treat’s pamphlet and, 233–34, 252, 253
vacation in Eu
rope, 228–29
Vanderbilt and, 36, 41
will of, 245–47
women’s rights and, see women’s rights
working-class background of, 89–92, 159, 183–84
Woodhull, Zulu Maud, 175, 192, 205, 222, 296, 300
agricultural school and, 291–92
changes name to Zula, 264
described, 19, 189, 292
Froebel School and, 293, 295
Humanitarian and, 285
illustrated, 299
Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly, 3, 68, 83, 112, 125, 127, 152
Andrews and, 62–67
attacks against, 64–65, 88, 90, 92–93
change in philosophy of, 236, 240, 241
closing of, 241
described, 59–62
financial difficulties of, 204, 221–22, 235–36, 241
free love and, 253
scandal issue (November 2, 1872), 183–212
Andrews and, 192
arrests and incarceration, 4, 66, 185–97, 201–204, 208, 225–26
contents of, 183–84
decision to print, 179
distribution of equipment due to, 188, 204
lawyers defending sisters, 188
libel charges, 188, 194–95, 203, 204, 206, 210, 225–28
national press and, 193
obscenity charges, 186–87, 189, 192, 201–203, 206, 210–12, 226
reissue of, 205
release of sisters on bail, 197, 203, 225–29
sympathy for sisters, 204
“triparte agreement” concerning, 206
Victoria’s statement about, 195–97
see also Beecher-Tilton scandal; Challis, Luther
suspension of publication of, 177
Tilton and, 118–19
Treat and, 205, 233–34
Victoria’s presidential bid and, 54–55, 168
Wall Street exposés in, 160
Woodhull, Claflin & Co., 39–53, 55, 101, 235
Black Friday and, 40
financial difficulties of, 165
forgers and, 50–51
Herald interview, 42–45
lawsuit against, 89
newspaper of, see next entry
offices of, 45–46, 177
opening of, 1–3, 46–50
Vanderbilt and, 2, 36, 40–46, 165
women’s rights and, 3, 39, 41, 45
Woodley, J. B., 187
Woolf, Virginia, 256
World War I, 296, 298
Wright, Fanny, 92
Wright, Frances, 30
Y
Yale Divinity School, 178, 230
Yerborough, Reverend W. H. B., 300–301
Yoakam, Jacob, 7
Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA), 185
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