Erin ’s Reviews > The Improbable Victoria Woodhull: Suffrage, Free Love, and the First Woman to Run for President > Status Update

In America empathy rarely paid.

Native Americans were not citizens and were denied the right to vote. Women were denied the same rights on the grounds that they were not considered capable of reason.

Victoria was arrogant, self-serving, and stubborn: male traits that had no place in womanhood.

The art of quackery began to lose out to science. Post-Civil War medical standards were imposed by state authorities, the activities of mediums were banned and courts levied fines against violators.

Victoria decided that a woman's ability to earn money was better protection against the tyranny of confinement than a woman's ability to vote.

Cornelius Vanderbilt was a living breathing embodiment of Karl Marx's belief that capitalism had a tendency toward monopoly and that successfull capitalism drives weaker rivals out of business.

Karl Marx wrote Das Kapital a communist manifesto based on the premise that the history of human society is one of the struggles between exploiting and the exploited and that the relentless omnivorous thing called capitalism was prone to assist one in order to do the other.

"Actress" was shorthand for part-time prostitute

Libel covers any published statement alleged to defame a named or identifiable individual in a way that causes loss in their profession or damages their standing in the community.

Tennessee Clafin was undisturbed by scruples and beautiful enough to believe that anything she did was right simply because she did it.