Notorious Victoria
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Notorious Victoria
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Author : Mary Gabriel
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 1998-01-28
Notorious Victoria written by Mary Gabriel and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-01-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“A remarkable biography . . . Well written and researched, this book warrants a spot on every serious American history student’s bookshelf.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review She was the first woman to run for president. She was the first woman to address the U.S. Congress and to operate a brokerage firm on Wall Street. She’s the woman Gloria Steinem called “the most controversial suffragist of them all.” So why have most people never heard of Victoria Woodhull? In this extensively researched biography, journalist Mary Gabriel offers readers a balanced portrait of a unique and complicated woman who was years ahead of her time—and perhaps ahead of our own. “One of the most controversial American women of the late nineteenth century springs to life in this study that leaves no stone unturned.” —Publishers Weekly “[A] deftly written biography . . . of a hell-raising visionary.” —Mirabella “A meaty slice of feminist history peppered with Victorian drama.” —Civilization
The Rise And Fall Of Notorious Victoria Woodhull
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Author : Maculloch Hall Historical Museum
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
The Rise And Fall Of Notorious Victoria Woodhull written by Maculloch Hall Historical Museum and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with categories.
Woodhull Claflin S Weekly The Lives And Writings Of Notorious Victoria Woodhull And Her Sister Tennessee Claflin
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Author : Arlene Kisner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Woodhull Claflin S Weekly The Lives And Writings Of Notorious Victoria Woodhull And Her Sister Tennessee Claflin written by Arlene Kisner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Anarchism categories.
Stories about Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee Claflin claimed more newspaper space than any other event at the time except the Civil War. And if two women did today what they did then, it would still make headlines. They wrote and lectured about free love, socialism, labor struggles, mysticism and especially, women's rights. Given how little the world has changed on these issues, this selection of their writings very much relates to our contemporary struggles. And Arlene's biographical sketches indicate that Woodhull and Claflin also lived their politics, struggling for a meaningful way to live in a hostile world while trying to change it--as 100 years later, we do now.
The Queen Her Lover And The Most Notorious Spy In History
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Author : Roland Perry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-10-01
The Queen Her Lover And The Most Notorious Spy In History written by Roland Perry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-01 with categories.
The intensely revealing and entertaining account of a great royal secret and hidden love story - an unbuttoned history of Queen Victoria's loves and intrigues.
Before Hillary Was Nasty
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Author : Sophie Primeaux
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Before Hillary Was Nasty written by Sophie Primeaux and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with categories.
Infamous Victorians
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Author : Giles St Aubyn
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2013-01-17
Infamous Victorians written by Giles St Aubyn and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-17 with History categories.
'Even the lives of scoundrels play some part in portraying an age...' Our interest in all things Victorian - in the seamy side of the era especially - is ageless and undimmed. Giles St. Aubyn's Infamous Victorians, first published in 1971, stands as a brilliant illumination of two dark stories of the time, replete with sinister elements of iniquity and hypocrisy. In the first fifty years of Victoria's reign two doctors were hanged after being found guilty of murder at the Central Criminal Court. Both men were 32 years old, both poisoners, both murdered for money. Dr William Palmer was a notorious figure, tried for a single murder though he almost certainly killed others. Dr George Lamson was a morphia addict convicted of killing his crippled young brother-in-law at Blenheim House school. Giles St. Aubyn restores them to life on the page, examines their careers and assesses their guilt.
Queen Her Lover And The Most Notorious Spy In History
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Author : Roland Perry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Queen Her Lover And The Most Notorious Spy In History written by Roland Perry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Family secrets categories.
The intensely revealing and entertaining account of a great royal secret and hidden love story - an unbuttoned history of Queen Victoria's loves and intrigues. Long before her successful marriage to Prince Albert, Princess Victoria had an affair with the dashing Scottish 13th Lord Elphinstone. After the liaison was exposed, Elphinstone was banished to India, appointed Governor of Madras, which allowed Victoria's mother to engineer a royal union for her with Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg. After five years pining for Elphinstone, Victoria finally gave in and married Albert. Despite a successful marriage, Victoria never forgot Elphinstone and after a decade in India he returned to her side as Lord-in-Waiting at Court. He only left her to take up the critical role of Governor of Bombay during the Indian Uprising of 1857. Elphinstone died soon after in June 1860 from a fever. Many attempts were made to bury the memory of Lord Elphinstone, his long-running relationship with the monarch and his grand service for the Empire, but Victoria recorded it in letters to her confidant, her first- born, the Princess Royal: 'Vicky'. The revealing correspondence, like a ticking time-bomb, sat in a German castle attic until 1945 when King George VI, Victoria's great-grandson, sent a courtier, MI5 operative Anthony Blunt, on seven special missions to gather the letters.
Victoria Woodhull S Sexual Revolution
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Author : Amanda Frisken
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2012-03-06
Victoria Woodhull S Sexual Revolution written by Amanda Frisken and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for president, forced her fellow Americans to come to terms with the full meaning of equality after the Civil War. A sometime collaborator with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, yet never fully accepted into mainstream suffragist circles, Woodhull was a flamboyant social reformer who promoted freedom, especially freedom from societal constraints over intimate relationships. This much we know from the several popular biographies of the nineteenth-century activist. But what we do not know, as Amanda Frisken reveals, is how Woodhull manipulated the emerging popular media and fluid political culture of the Reconstruction period in order to accomplish her political goals. As an editor and public speaker, Woodhull demanded that women and men be held to the same standards in public life. Her political theatrics brought the topic of women's sexuality into the public arena, shocking critics, galvanizing supporters, and finally locking opposing camps into bitter conflict over sexuality and women's rights in marriage. A woman who surrendered her own privacy, whose life was grist for the mills of a sensation-mongering press, she made the exposure of others' secrets a powerful tool of social change. Woodhull's political ambitions became inseparable from her sexual nonconformity, yet her skill in using contemporary media kept her revolutionary ideas continually before her peers. In this way Woodhull contributed to long-term shifts in attitudes about sexuality and the slow liberation of marriage and other social institutions. Using contemporary sources such as images from the "sporting news," Frisken takes a fresh look at the heyday of this controversial women's rights activist, discovering Woodhull's previously unrecognized importance in the turbulent climate of Radical Reconstruction and making her a useful lens through which to view the shifting sexual mores of the nineteenth century.
Banquet At Delmonico S
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Author : Barry Werth
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2009-01-06
Banquet At Delmonico S written by Barry Werth and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-06 with History categories.
In Banquet at Delmonico’s, Barry Werth, the acclaimed author of The Scarlet Professor, draws readers inside the circle of philosophers, scientists, politicians, businessmen, clergymen, and scholars who brought Charles Darwin’s controversial ideas to America in the crucial years after the Civil War. The United States in the 1870s and ’80s was deep in turmoil–a brash young nation torn by a great depression, mired in scandal and corruption, rocked by crises in government, violently conflicted over science and race, and fired up by spiritual and sexual upheavals. Secularism was rising, most notably in academia. Evolution–and its catchphrase, “survival of the fittest”–animated and guided this Gilded Age. Darwin’s theory of natural selection was extended to society and morals not by Darwin himself but by the English philosopher Herbert Spencer, father of “the Law of Equal Freedom,” which holds that “every man is free to do that which he wills,” provided it doesn’t infringe on the equal freedom of others. As this justification took root as a social, economic, and ethical doctrine, Spencer won numerous influential American disciples and allies, including industrialist Andrew Carnegie, clergyman Henry Ward Beecher, and political reformer Carl Schurz. Churches, campuses, and newspapers convulsed with debate over the proper role of government in regulating Americans’ behavior, this country’s place among nations, and, most explosively, the question of God’s existence. In late 1882, most of the main figures who brought about and popularized these developments gathered at Delmonico’s, New York’s most venerable restaurant, in an exclusive farewell dinner to honor Spencer and to toast the social applications of the theory of evolution. It was a historic celebration from which the repercussions still ripple throughout our society. Banquet at Delmonico’s is social history at its finest, richest, and most appetizing, a brilliant narrative bristling with personal intrigue, tantalizing insights, and greater truths about American life and culture.
The Highest Glass Ceiling
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Author : Ellen Fitzpatrick
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2016-02-29
The Highest Glass Ceiling written by Ellen Fitzpatrick and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-29 with Political Science categories.
Best-selling historian Ellen Fitzpatrick tells the story of three remarkable women who set their sights on the Presidency. The arduous, dramatic quests of Victoria Woodhull (1872), Margaret Chase Smith (1964), and Shirley Chisholm (1972) illuminate today’s political landscape, shedding light on Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign for the Oval Office.