A Historical Marker for Victoria Woodhull erected in 1988 by Scott and Michele Claflin, Licking County Historical Society, and The Ohio Historical Society.
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.
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…
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
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…