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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?

    Question #60121. Asked by lanfranco. (Oct 21 05 4:10 PM)


    peasypod

    		Might this be Victoria Woodhull?

    http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAWwoodhullV.htm

    Oct 21 05, 4:22 PM
    peasypod

    		Guess I shoulda mentioned the Communist Manifesto somewhere...

    Oct 21 05, 4:27 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, 4:40 PM

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