Which her family was famous by stating that Victoria was "Heaven sent for the rescue of woman from the pit of subjection." What the pamphlet did not say was that this praise had been written a quarter of a century earlier. Anthony, who called Victoria a "bright, glorious, young and strong spirit" Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who predicted, "In the annals of emancipation the name will have its own high place as a deliverer" Īnd Paulina Wright Davis, who said, "I believe you were raised up of God to do wonderful work and I believe you will unmask the hypocrisy of a class that none others dare touch." Isabella Beecher Hooker lent the religiosity for The rest was a compendium of extravagant praise from such leaders of the woman's rights movement as Susanī. May 5, 1892: As the delegates to the National American Woman Suffrage Association convention filed into the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, they found on the seats a leather-bound pamphlet titled "A Page of History." On the first page was anĪnnouncement that Victoria Woodhull would run for president of the United States against Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison. The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull
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