Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, & the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull

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Year: 1998
Pages: 531
Binding Hardcover
ISBN 394555368

Product Code: 756762669

Description

Barbara Goldsmith (au). This combination of history & biography interweaves the stories of some of the most important social, political, & religious figures of America’s Victorian era with the courageous & notorious life of Victoria Woodhull, to tell the story of her astonishing rise & fall & rise again. It is set amid the battle for women’s suffrage, the Spiritualist movement that swept across the nation following the Civil War, & the bitter fight that pitted black men against white women in the struggle to win the right to vote. Details spiritualist Woodhull’s involvement in the politics of the woman’s rights movement, the struggle to “purify” the Amer. soul, & the Beecher-Tilton Trial. Other figures include Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Anna Dickinson, Horace Greeley, & Anthony Comstock.

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