| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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Victoria Woodhull's Sexual Revolution: Political Theater and the Popular Press in Nineteenth- Century America. By Amanda Frisken. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. x, 225 pp. $37.50, ISBN 0-8122-3798-6.)

In 1870 Victoria Woodhull opened the first Wall Street brokerage firm operated by women. From then until she departed for England in 1877, Woodhull appeared in one public forum after another. In 1870 she also began publication of her own weekly. She advocated suffrage for women before a Senate committee and became one of the organizers and leaders of the International Workingmen's Association. In 1871 she was elected president of the American Association of Spiritualists and then publicly advocated free love. In 1872 she became the presidential candidate of the People's party, and, before year's end, she published the story that accused Henry Ward Beecher, the most popular minister of the day, of committing adultery.

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