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Movie Review | The Journal of American History, 86.3 | The History Cooperative

America's Victoria: The Victoria Woodhull Story. Prod. by Victoria Weston, 1995. 82 mins. (Women Make Movies, 462 Broadway, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10013)

In a few short years from 1870 to 1874, Victoria Woodhull (1838-1927) burst onto the stage with America's most radical reformers, reoriented their movements, and was gone. People listened to her. A congressional committee reported on her interpretation of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments. She was the first woman to run for president of the United States and the first presidential candidate to spend election day in jail. Horace Greeley turned against woman suffrage because he believed her that it was inseparable from free love. Harriet Beecher Stowe and Catharine Beecher used their cultural leverage to label her a tramp. Karl Marx dismissed her from the International Workingmen's Association. Anthony Comstock declared war on her for distributing obscene materials. She almost brought an end to Henry Ward Beecher's career. 1

America's Victoria is a biography of this enigmatic figure in American history, the daughter of a swindling father and a spiritualist mother, who remade herself several times to become a Wall Street broker, a radical reformer, and, with her third husband, a British lady of the manor. The story is told by a narrator, several commentators, and to a lesser extent by readings from Woodhull's speeches and contemporary documents. . . .

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