Readings

Braude, Ann. Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women’s Rights in Nineteenth-Century America. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2001.

Brody, Miriam. Victoria Woodhull: Free Spirit for Women’s Rights. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Browne, Stephen H. Angelina Grimké Rhetoric, Identity, and the Radical Imagination. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2012.

Frisken, Amanda. “Sex in Politics: Victoria Woodhull as an American Public Woman, 1870-1876.” Journal of Women’s History 12 (2000): 89-111.

Frisken, Amanda. Victoria Woodhull’s Sexual Revolution: Political Theater and the Popular Press in Nineteenth-Century America. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.

Goldsmith, Barbara. Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull. New York, NY: Alfred A Knopf, 1998.

Havelin, Kate. Victoria Woodhull Fearless Feminist. Minneapolis, MN: Twenty-First Century Books, 2007.

MacPherson, Myra. The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age. New York, NY: Grand Central Publishing, 2014.

Safronoff, Cindy Peyser. Crossing Swords: Mary Baker Eddy vs. Victoria Claflin Woodhull and the Battle for the Soul of Marriage. Seattle, WA: This One Thing, LLC, 2015.

Underhill, Lois Beachy. The Woman Who Ran for President: The Many Lives of Victoria Woodhull. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1995.

Warren, Josiah. The Practical Anarchist: Writings of Josiah Warren. Edited by Crispin Sartwell. New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 2011.

Woodhull, Victoria C. Selected Writings of Victoria Woodhull: Suffrage, Free Love, and Eugenics. Ed. Cari M. Carpenter. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2010.

Woodhull, Victoria C. The Victoria Woodhull Reader. Ed. Madeleine B. Stern. Weston, MA: M&S Press, 1974.

Audio-Visual Materials

“Victoria Woodhull: The First Woman to Run for President.” Radio Diaries. http://www.radiodiaries.org/victoria-woodhull-the-first-woman-to-run-for-president/

“Victoria Woodhull: Free Love, Feminism & Finance,” Dig: A History Podcast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qFmt4Hr6pg.

“Victoria Woodhull: Little Queen for President.” Stuff You Missed in History Class Podcast.   https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vc3R1ZmZ5b3VtaXNzZWRpbmhpc3RvcnljbGFzcw/episode/aHR0cHM6Ly9wb2RjYXN0cy5ob3dzdHVmZndvcmtzLmNvbS9oc3cvcG9kY2FzdHMvc3ltaGMvMjAxMS0wMy0yOC1zeW1oYy1saXR0bGUtcXVlZW4tcHJlc2lkZW50Lm1wMw?hl=en&ved=2ahUKEwjGiJeo9IbqAhWAZzABHXNbDfIQjrkEegQICxAG&ep=6.

Weston, Victoria, dir.  America’s Victoria: Remembering Victoria Woodhull – Director’s Cut.  Atlanta: Zoie Films Inc., DVD.

West Virginia Humanities Council. History Alive “Victoria Woodhull.”  Charleston, WV: Library Television Network, 2006. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYDOctgz28o.

Online Resources

Felsenthal, Carol. “The Strange Tale of the First Woman to Run for President.” Politico, April 9, 2015. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/04/victoria-woodhull-first-woman-presidential-candidate-116828.

“The First Woman to Address a House Committee,” History, Art & Archives, United States House of Representatives. https://history.house.gov/Historical-Highlights/1851-1900/The-first-woman-to-address-a-congressional-committee/.

“On This Day – February 17, 1872,” New York Times Archive (Learning Network). https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0217.html.

Victoria Woodhull & Company. Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly. http://www.victoria-woodhull.com/wcwarchive.htm.

Tilton, Theodore. Victoria C. Woodhull, A Biographical Sketch. New York: Office of the Golden Age, 1871. Project Gutenberg. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/51861/51861-h/51861-h.htm.