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Publisher, stockbroker, presidential candidate, and shocking advocate of free love -- and in the 19th century, too! Who was this pioneering lady, what highly-influential political treatise did her paper first print in English translation, and what great scandal did she publicize?
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#60121. Asked by lanfranco.
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peasypod
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Guess I shoulda mentioned the Communist Manifesto somewhere...
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lanfranco
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Why, yes. But you get the G.B., of course!
I happened to be reading something that mentioned that women were not allowed to trade on the New York Stock Exchange for many years, and I wondered, who WAS the first woman stockbroker on Wall Street? I should have guessed that it was Woodhull.
And here's some information on the famous Beecher-Tilton adultery scandal:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ward_Beecher
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