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Authors: Myra MacPherson
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Newark Sunday Call
Newport Daily
New York Chronicle
New-York Daily Tribune
New York Herald
(NY) Sun
New York Times
Ohio Democrat
Ottawa (IL) Republican
Philadelphia Inquirer
San Francisco Chronicle
Springfield Daily Republican
St. Petersburg Index
(London) Times
Washington Post
Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly
Manuscripts, Periodicals, and Websites
Andrews, Stephen Pearl, Henry James, and Horace Greeley. “Love, Marriage and Divorce: A Discussion.” New York: Stringer and Townsend, 1853.
“The Beecher Trial: A Review of the Evidence.” Reprinted from the
New York Times
, July 3, 1875.
“The Case of Henry Ward Beecher.” Opening address of Benjamin Franklin Tracy. New York: George W. Smith and Co. Publishers, 1875. Reprinted by University of Michigan Library, 2005. Can be found at http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/AJK2284.0001.001?.
Claflin, Tennessee. “Sexual Equality Speech.” Published in 1871. Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly Co. Collection.
Clark, Edward H. G. “The Thunderbolt.” New York, Albany, and Troy: n.p., May 1873.
Danziger, Elon. “The Cook Collection, Its Founder and Its Inheritors.”
The Burlington Magazine
145, no. 1215 (July 2004): 444–58.
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. “The Cook Collection, Its Founder and Its Inheritors.”
Jardim Formoso
. August 12, 2009.
Darewin, G. S. “Synopsis of the Lives of Victoria C. Woodhull, Now Mrs. John Biddulph Martin, and Tennessee Claflin, Now Lady Cook: The First Two Lady Bankers and Reformers of America.” London: n.p., 1891.
The Humanitarian: A Monthly Review of Sociological Science
. New York and London, vols. 1–19 (1892–1901).
Kisner, Arlene. “
Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly
: The Lives and Writings of the Notorious Victoria Woodhull and Her Sister, Tennessee Claflin.” Times Change Press, 1972.
Legge, Madeleine. “Two Noble Women, Nobly Planned.” London: Phelps Brothers, 1893.
Luckhurst, Gerald. “Friends of Monserrate.”
Jardim Formoso
. June 26, 2010.
McCrimmon, Barbara. “Victoria Woodhull Martin Sues the British Museum for Libel.”
The Library Quarterly
45, no. 4 (Oct. 1975): 355–72.
“Mrs. Satan.”
Harper’s Weekly
. February 17, 1872.
The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
. vol. 3, 1873–1880. Rutgers, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2003.
Shearer, Mary.
Victoria Woodhull & Company
, at http://www.victoria-woodhull.com. Provides information about Woodhull, articles by and about her, pictures, and historical matter.
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, and Susan B. Anthony. “Wall Street Aroused.”
Revolution
, February 24, 1870.
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. “What Can Women Do?” editorial,
Revolution
(March 24, 1870): LoC, vol. 5, January–June 1870, 188.
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. “The Working Woman.”
Revolution
(March 10, 1870).
Stern, Madeleine B. “Notable Women of 19th-Century America.”
Manuscripts
34, no. 1 (Winter 1982): 119 (autograph of Woodhull).
Tilton, Theodore. “Victoria C. Woodhull, A Biographical Sketch, Mr. Tilton’s Account of Mrs. Woodhull.” New York:
The Golden Age
, tract 3, 1871.
Treat, Joseph, M.D.
Beecher, Tilton, Woodhull, and the Creation of Society: All Four of Them Exposed, and If Possible Reformed and Forgiven, in Dr. Treat’s Celebrated Letter to Victoria C. Woodhull
. Self-published. New York, 1874.
U.S. Congress. Senate. “Memorial of Victoria C. Woodhull, Praying the Passage of a Law Carrying into Execution the Right Vested by the Constitution in Citizens of the United States to Vote, without Regard to Sex.” 41st Cong., 3d sess. S. Mis. Doc. 16. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1870.
Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly
, New York. May 14, 1870–June 10, 1876 (publication suspended from June through October 1872).
Woodhull, Victoria Claflin. “Tendencies of Government.”
New York Herald
, April 16 and 25; May 2, 9, 16, and 27; June 4 and 19; July 4, 1870. Probably ghostwritten by Stephen Pearl Andrews.
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. (Mrs. John Biddulph Martin). “Manor House Causeries.” Bredon’s Norton, near Tewkesbury, n.d.
Books
Ackerman, Kenneth D.
Boss Tweed: The Corrupt Pol Who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York.
New York: 1st Carroll and Graf ed., 2005. Falls Church, VA: Viral History Press, 2011.
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The Gold Ring: Jim Fisk, Jay Gould, and Black Friday, 1869.
New York: 1st Dodd, Mead and Company ed., 1988. Falls Church, VA: Viral History Press, 2011.
Anonymous.
The Gentleman’s Companion. A Vest Pocket Guide to Brothels
, 1870. Reprinted in the
New York Times
, January 26, 2011.
Applegate, Debby.
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher
. New York: Three Leaves Press, 2007.
Auchincloss, Louis,
The Vanderbilt Era: Profiles of a Gilded Age
. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1989.
Baker, Jean.
Sisters: The Lives of American Suffragists
. New York: Hill and Wang, 2006.
Barker-Benfield, Graham John.
The Horrors of the Half-Known Life: Male Attitudes Toward Women and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century America
. New York: Routledge, 1968.
The Beecher-Tilton War
: Official original documents, letters and statements, University of Michigan Historical Reprint Series: MPublishing. Print on demand print service through Amazon.com.
Brandt, Allan M.
No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States since 1880
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
Braude, Ann.
Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women’s Rights in Nineteenth-Century America
. Boston: Beacon Press, 1989.
Brodie, Janet Farrell.
Contraception and Abortion in Nineteenth-Century America
. 1st Cornell paperback ed. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997.
Brody, Miriam.
Victoria Woodhull: Free Spirit for Women’s Rights
. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Brough, James.
The Vixens: A Biography of Victoria and Tennessee Claflin
. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980.
Broun, Heywood, and Margaret Leech.
Anthony Comstock: Roundsman of the Lord
. New York: Boni, 1927.
Burrows, Edwin G., and Mike Wallace.
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Byrnes, Thomas.
1886 Professional Criminals of America
. Reprint of 19th Century Rogues’ Gallery of Criminals. New York: The Lyons Press, 2000.
Carpenter, Cari M., ed.
Selected Writings of Victoria Woodhull: Legacies of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers
. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010.
Chesterton, G. K.
Eugenics and Other Evils
. London and New York: Cassell, 1922.
Claflin, Tennessee, Lady Cook.
Essays on Social Topics
. London: The Roxburgh Press, c. 1895.
Clews, Henry.
Fifty Years in Wall Street
. New York: Irving Publishing, 1908.
Constitutional Equality of the Sexes
. New York: Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly Co., 1871.
Darwin, Charles.
On the Origin of Species
. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979.
Donnelly, Mabel Collins.
The American Victorian Woman: The Myth and the Reality
. Contributions in Women’s Studies no. 71. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986.
Douglass, Frederick.
The Autobiographies of Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
. Library of America, Series. 1994.
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. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism
. 1st Norton Critical ed. New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 1996.
Doyle, John E. P.
Plymouth Church and Its Pastor: Or Henry Ward Beecher and His Accusers
. St. Louis: Bryan, Brand and Co., 1875. Digital U-M, Cornell University collaboration.
Drabble, Margaret.
For Queen and Country: Britain in the Victorian Age
. 1st American ed. New York: Seabury Press, 1979.
Edel, Leon.
Henry James: The Conquest of London
. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1961; New York: Avon Books, 1978.
Edwards, Rebecca.
New Spirits: Americans in the “Gilded Age,” 1865–1905
. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Edwards, Stewart.
The Communards of Paris, 1871: Documents of Revolution
. Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press, 1973.
Ellington, George (pseudonym).
The Women of New York: Or, Social Life in the Great City
. 1870; repr. New York: General Books, 2009. Original title:
The Women of New York: Or, the Underworld of the Great City
.
Foner, Eric.
Frederick Douglass on Women’s Rights
. New York: Da Capo Press, 1992.
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Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877
. New York: Harper and Row, 1988.
Fox, Richard Wightman.
Trials of Intimacy: Love and Loss in the Beecher-Tilton Scandal
. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Frisken, Amanda.
Victoria Woodhull’s Sexual Revolution: Political Theater and Popular Press in Nineteenth-Century America
. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
Gabriel, Mary.
Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored
. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1998.
Gardner, Augustus K.
Conjugal Sins against the Laws of Life and Health, and Their Effects Upon the Father, Mother and Child
. New York: J. S. Redfield Publisher, 1870. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044009948563.
Geisst, Charles R.
Wall Street: A History
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Ginzberg, Lori D.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life
. New York: Hill and Wang, 2009.
Goldsmith, Barbara.
Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull
. New York: HarperPerennial, 1998.
Gordon, John Steele.
The Great Game: The Emergence of Wall Street
. New York: Touchstone, 2000.
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The Scarlet Woman of Wall Street: Jay Gould, Jim Fisk, Cornelius Vanderbilt, the Erie Railway Wars, and the Birth of Wall Street
. New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988.
Griffith, Elisabeth.
In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.
Hale, William Harlan.
Horace Greeley, Voice of the People
. 1st ed. New York: Harper, 1950.
Harper, Ida Husted,
The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony
, chapter 22, vol. 1 Project Gutenberg ebook version, 2005. www.gutenberg.org.
Hays, Elinor Rice.
Morning Star: A Biography of Lucy Stone, 1818–1893.
1st ed. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1961.
Hibben, Paxton.
Henry Ward Beecher: An American Portrait
. New York: Press of the New York Readers Club, 1942.
Hobsbawm, E. J.
The Age of Capital, 1848–1875
. 1st Vintage ed. New York: Vintage Books, 1996.
Holbrook, Stewart Hall.
The Age of the Moguls
. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1954.
Holzman, Robert S.
Stormy Ben Butler
. New York: Macmillan, 1954.
Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz.
Attitudes toward Sex in Antebellum America: A Brief History with Documents
. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006.
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Rereading Sex: Battles over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America
. 1st ed. New York: Vintage Books, 2003.
Houghton, Walter E.
The Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830–1870
. New Haven, CT: Published for Wellesley College by Yale University Press, 1957.
Howells, William Dean.
Years of My Youth
. New York, Harper and Co., 1916. BibioLife reproduction, 2008.
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. Impressions and Experiences
. Ulan Press reprint of pre-1920s books, Unlimited Publishing LLC. Vantage Press.
Hoyt, Edwin Palmer.
The Vanderbilts and Their Fortunes
. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1962.
James, Henry.
The Bostonians
. New York: Macmillan, 1886; New York: Penguin, 1983.
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The Great Short Novels of Henry James: The Siege of London
. New York: Dial Press, 1944; New York: Penguin, 1983. (“The Siege of London” first appeared in
Cornhill Magazine
, January–February 1883.)
James, William.
The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature, Being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion Delivered at Edinburgh in 1901–1902
. New York: Random House, Modern Library, n.d.