![]() and part-time prostitute, the founder of the first stock brokerage firm for women, the disciple of Karl Marx, the blackmailer, the presidential candidate'' - was indeed both sinner and saint. Goldsmith's main character - ''the Spiritualist, the 'high priestess' of free love. ![]() The adjective ''scandalous'' is used only partly in irony here because Ms. Goldsmith's absorbing, sweeping book, ''Other Powers,'' is, as its subtitle suggests, a portrait of an age, with the interesting figure, the ''scandalous Victoria Woodhull'' at its center. ![]() The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhullįor anyone who thinks that scandals mixing sex and politics are something new in American life, Barbara Goldsmith's savory 19th-century panorama of feminism, spiritualism, Protestantism and sex will induce a new awareness of history's farcical habit of repeating itself. ![]() “A Firebrand Suffragist Who Challenged Her Era” ![]()
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