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Victoria Woodhull’s Sexual Revolution
Victoria Woodhull’s Sexual Revolution
Political Theater and the Popular Press in Nineteenth-Century America
Amanda Frisken
University of Pennsylvania Press
Philadelphia
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Frisken, Amanda.
Victoria Woodhull’s sexual revolution : political theater and the popular press in nineteenth-century America / Amanda Frisken
p. cm.
ISBN 0-8122-3798-6 (alk. paper)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838–1927. 2. Feminists—United States—Biography. 3. Women—Suffrage—United States—History. 4. Suffragists—United States—Biography. I. Title.
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Contents
Chronology of Events
| January 19, 1870 | Woodhull, Claflin & Co., Brokers, open for business |
| April 2, 1870 | Woodhull declares herself a candidate for the upcoming presidential election in the New York Herald |
| May 14, 1870 | First issue of Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly |
| January 11, 1871 | Woodhull presents her “new departure” Memorial to the House Judiciary Committee (Majority Report rejects, January 15, 1871) |
| May 11, 1871 | Woodhull speaks before the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) Meeting in New York |
| May 15, 1871 | Roxanna Claflin brings charges against Colonel Blood for alienating the affections of her daughters Woodhull and Tennessee Claflin, and the family appears in Essex Police Court |
| July 1871 | Section Twelve of International Workingmen’s Association (IWA) forms with Woodhull as leader |
| August 11, 1871 | Claflin nominated for Congress in the Eighth Congressional district in New York |
| September 1871 | Theodore Tilton publishes Biography of Victoria C. Woodhull in the Golden Age |
| September 12, 1871 | Woodhull elected president of the American Association of Spiritualists (AAS) |
| November 7, 1871 | Woodhull and Claflin attempt to vote |
| November 20, 1871 | Woodhull delivers her free love lecture, “The Principles of Social Freedom,” at New York’s Steinway Hall |
| December 17, 1871 | French and Anglo-American sections of the IWA parade in honor of the martyred French communards |
| December 30, 1871 | Marx’s Communist Manifesto published in English for the first time in Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly |
| February 17, 1872 | Thomas Nast publishes the Mrs. Satan cartoon in Harper’s Weekly |
| February 21, 1872 | Woodhull delivers “Impending Revolution” speech before IWA sections and others at New York’s Academy of Music |
| March 12, 1872 | Karl Marx and IWA General Council temporarily suspend Section Twelve, pending confirmation at the International Congress, the Hague, September 1872 |
| May 11, 1872 | Equal Rights Party convention nominates Woodhull and Frederick Douglass for president and vice president |
| May 28, 1872 |
IWA General Council formally announces break-up of Spring Street Council
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