WHIRLWIND IN PETTICOATS

by Beril Becker ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 25, 1947

A spirited, and sensational biography of one of the outstanding figures in the feminist movement, this tells the story of Victoria Claflin Woodhull. Victoria, both beautiful and intelligent, married at 15 in a small Ohio community, soon rebelled against woman's lot as housekeeper, childbearer, and turned to the practice of spiritualism, lectured on free love, and was later joined by her sister Tennessee, voluptuous, amoral and clever. Victoria met, loved and lived with Col. James Blood after their mutual divorces, neither believing in marriage. Blood, an idealist who believed firmly in Victoria's ideas, ""managed"" the sisters when they went to New York, practiced their spiritualism on Vanderbilt, mixed with the top financeers, got Vanderbilt to back them in a successful brokerage business. Instrumental in over-throwing Boss Tweed, the sisters publicized the Henry Ward Beecher scandal, were involved in his trial which ended Victoria's hopes of becoming a presidential candidate for a third party... A colorful biography of an equally colorful personality, for a woman's audience.

Pub Date: Sept. 25, 1947

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Doubleday

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1947

Categories: NONFICTION