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?

peasypod

Might this be Victoria Woodhull? http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAWwoodhullV.htm Oct 21 05, 5:22 PM

peasypod

Guess I shoulda mentioned the Communist Manifesto somewhere... Oct 21 05, 5:27 PM

lanfranco

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 Oct 21 05, 5:40 PM

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