Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

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

In Other Powers Barbara Goldsmith takes a wide-ranging approach to the life of controversial feminist Victoria Woodhull (1838-1927). Goldsmith places her buccaneering subject within the context of 19th-century America's fascination with spiritualism, which enabled an accomplished medium like Woodhull to escape her impoverished origins and amass considerable wealth. Goldsmith also ably delineates the freewheeling Woodhull's uneasy relations with more respectable ladies in the women's suffrage movement and portrays the hatred of sexual hypocrisy that ultimately brought Woodhull's relentless enemies who wrecked her public career. History illuminates biography--and vice versa--in this boundary-defying work.Read More

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  • Product Description

    From the author of "Little Gloria . . . Happy at Last" comes a stunning combination of history and biography, a book that interweaves the stories of some of the most important social, political, and religious figures of America's Victorian era with the courageous and notorious life of Victoria Woodhull, spiritualist, suffragette, and the first woman to address a joint session of Congress. 90 illustrations. National media publicity. NPR publicity. Print ads (General History) .

  • 0394555368
  • 9780394555362
  • Barbara Goldsmith
  • 31 March 1998
  • Alfred A. Knopf
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 531
  • 1
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