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Author
Publisher
Lawson Gartner Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
397 pages, 23 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Forty-eight years before women were granted the right to vote, one woman dared to run for President of the United States, yet her name has been virtually written out of the history books. Rising from the shame of an abusive childhood, Victoria Woodhull, the daughter of a con-man and a religious zealot, vows to follow her destiny, one the spirits say will lead her out of poverty to become ruler of her people. But the road to glory is far from easy....
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 401 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the adventures of two sisters who tried to overcome the male-dominated social norms of the late nineteenth century and achieved a remarkable list of firsts, including the first woman-run brokerage house and the first woman to run for president.
Author
Publisher
Bridge Works Pub
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xvii, 347 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Victoria Woodhull was a feminist pioneer who rose up from poverty to become the first woman Wall Street broker, the first woman to testify before Congress and the first woman to run for president. A beautiful woman and a spellbinding public speaker, she was also a figure of scandal, a divorcee and practicing clairvoyant turned muckracking newspaper publisher, a free-love advocate (and practitioner), and a socialist.
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A woman will one day occupy the Oval Office because women themselves have made it inevitable, says best-selling historian Ellen Fitzpatrick. She tells the remarkable 150-year story of the candidates, voters, activists, and citizens who, despite overwhelming odds against women in politics, set their sights on the highest glass ceiling in the land."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
Do you know the first woman to run for president? The first woman to have a seat on the Stock Exchange? The first woman to own a newspaper? To speak before Congress? They were all Victoria Woodhull; this is her story.
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