Victoria Woodhull

Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1838-1927) is a figure from history who seems too big for real life. Reformer, clairvoyant, stock broker, sex symbol and notorious free-love advocate of the 19th century; she went from rags to riches twice. Her first fortune was made on the road as a highly talented spiritualist. As other feminists complained that women were under-paid she made another fortune on the New York stock exchange as the first female Wall Street broker. As the better known Susan B. Anthony cast her vote in the 1872 election, using a legal argument Woodhull had conceived, Victoria herself was standing as a presidential candidate (the first woman to do so), but couldn't vote for herself since she was imprisoned on charges of indecency! She was also the first person to publish Karl Marx' communist manifesto in America (in her own newspaper) and was at the center of the largest sex scandal of 19th century America.

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