Victoria (Claflin) Woodhull (Morton)

(1838–1927)
A Woman of Many Firsts

Victoria Woodhull Tennessee Celeste Claflin Cornelius Vanderbilt Reverend Henry Ward Beecher Elizabeth Cady Stanton Frederic Douglass J. P. Morgan Susan B. Anthony

Victoria (Claflin) Woodhull (Morton)Overcoming poverty, sexual abuse, a third grade education, being sold into prostitution by her father, and growing up ‘dirt poor,’ Victoria Woodhull deserves to be an iconic symbol of female empowerment for women everywhere.

Victoria acted as spokesperson for Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony for the National Woman Suffrage Association, President of the American Spiritualist Society for several terms, and a leading proponent of Free Love, which advocated not promiscuity, but equal legal rights for a woman and the abolishment of the enslavement of marriage.

A Woman Of Many Firsts

Victoria became the first woman to own and operate a wholly woman-owned securities brokerage on Wall Street, published the first wholly woman-owned regular newspaper, be invited and speak to the United States House of Representatives, and officially run for President of the United States (1872).

Victoria foretold how the inability of women to set aside their differences and present exclusively male politicians a united front would delay American woman suffrage for over fifty years.

Outrageous; The Victoria Woodhull Saga Vol 1 Book Image

This debut novel won 12 literary awards. OUTRAGEOUS, traces an icon of Victorian American feminism, Victoria Woodhull from childhood poverty and horrific abuse to becoming one of the wealthiest women in America, founding the first woman-owned brokerage firm on Wall Street, and the first woman-owned newspaper. Victoria will stop at nothing to achieve her destiny.

Scandalous; The Victoria Woodhull Saga Vol 2 Book Image

Volume 2 of The Victoria Woodhull Saga brings Victorian America and the struggle of women to life. The facts amaze, audacity engages, lascivious adventures entertain, and the abuses of power render all of it Scandalous!

Scandalous has won 5 literary awards.

Neal Katz Awards

2016 Winner of three Gold Medals: IBPA Ben Franklin, Bill Fisher Award for Best First Book by a Publisher, the IPPY Award for Best Historical Fiction, and Gold Medal for Historical Fiction/Personage by Reader's Favorite. Other Awards: Finalist in the Historical Fiction category of the 2016 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Second Place winner of the IndieReader Discovery Award for Best Fiction, Best New Fiction in the International Book Awards for 2016, Finalist in two categories Independent Author Network Book of the Year, Chantecleer Goethe Award Finalist, Shelf Unbound Notable 100, and one of IndieReader's Best Books of 2016.