Victoria woodhull biography

Woodhull specified in an interview published in Woodhull &#; Claflin’s Weekly November 2, , that the fel in Beecher’s actions lied not in his romantisk händelse , which Woodhull supported through her advocacy of free love, but in his hypocrisy for preaching marital law and devotion while conducting an affair in private. She took issue with Beecher’s inconsistency on free love: in practice, he agreed with the philosophy, but he (so to speak) did not preach it—likely due to the controversy surrounding free love. Beecher preached sexuell devotion in marriages, specifically of wives to their husbands. In the same interview, Woodhull emphasized that while she criticized Beecher, the true problem was much larger than his individual actions: “[The issue] lies in the compulsory hypocrisy and systematic falsehood which fryst vatten thus enforced and inwrought into the very structure of gemenskap, and in the consequent and wide-spread injury to the whole community” (13).

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Victoria Woodhull

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Who Was Victoria Woodhull?

In , Victoria Woodhull created Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly, a radical publication, in which she expressed her ideas on a variety of activist topics. The journal also published the first English translation of Karl Marx's The Communist Manifesto. She ran for the U.S. presidency on the Equal Rights Party ticket in Woodhull later moved to England and wrote more activist works.

Early Life and Career

Born Victoria Claflin on September 23, , in Homer, Ohio, Victoria Woodhull was a radical in many ways during her lifetime, and made history in as the first woman to run for the presidency of the United States. She and her sister, Tennessee Celeste Claflin, became involved in the spiritualist movement of the s. Woodhull became a popular medium, traveling around with her sister to entertain audiences.

At the age of 15, Victoria married Canning Woodhull. The couple divorced in , and Woodhull later reportedly wed Colonel James H. Bl

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Victoria Woodhull

Born on September 23, , in Homer, Ohio, Woodhull was one of ten children born into a life of poverty. Woodhull’s mother was illiterate, and her father was a criminal. Victoria did not begin elementary school until the age of eight, dropping out three years later. She surrendered any opportunity of higher education when she married Dr. Canning Woodhull— a hopeless drunkard— at the age of fifteen. Victoria’s burden increased when she gave birth to a handicapped son in To compensate for her husband’s alcoholism and provide for her son, Victoria worked several jobs outside of the home including a clerk, seamstress, actress, and spiritual medium. 

At the precipice of the Civil War’s onset, Woodhull divorced her husband but kept his surname. The divorce prompted Woodhull’s involvement in the Free Love movement— a movement centered on making it easier for women to escape abusive marriages by arguing that divorce, birth control, and prostitution were the sole concer