"A new sensation was afforded Wall Street in the announcement that two ladies had taken rooms on the street, and were about to do a first-class brokers busi-ness, dealing in stocks and gold. The ladies rejoiced in the name of Victoria C. Woodhull,…
"This lot features a full page from the March 5, 1870 issue of “Harper’sBazar,” with engravings of Victoria Woodhull and her sister, Tennie C. Claflin. Here they are simply listed as “Lady Stockbrokers,” ... A nice early woman suffrage piece in very…
Print shows, at center, Henry Ward Beecher with Elizabeth Tilton sitting on his lap as he embraces her, the "Holy Bible" open on her lap. Includes vignettes of the Henry Ward Beecher-Theodore Tilton scandal, including "Tilton & Woodhull [swimming] at…
Victoria C. Woodhull, delivering her address on constitutional equality before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives of the United States, Jan. 12, 1871
Before the social support for today’s #MeToo movement, two women courageously denounced and accused two public figures, and exposed the rampant sexual misconduct of “the most famous man in America,” the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, and others—in…
From the New York Evening Telegraph, February 18th, 1870. Reprinted in One Moral Standard for All: Extracts from the lives of Victoria Clafin Woodhull and Tennessee Clafin. Museum of the City of New York. F2011.16.7.