Victoria Woodhull Martin papers 1883-1927 [microform].

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Victoria Woodhull Martin papers 1883-1927 [microform].

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This collection is composed of approximately 515 letters, dating from 1883-1927, that documents the relationship between Victoria Woodhull (September 23, 1838-June 9, 1927) and her third husband John Biddulph Martin (1841-March 21, 1897). Many common themes run throughout the letters, such as the spouses' emotional and physical well-being, daily events, and their publication activities. The collection also contains Woodhull and Martin's correspondence from relatives and colleges and a significant amount of newspaper clippings that document Woodhull's life long interest, among them equal rights, sexual freedom, and marriage. Included in the collection are photographs, manuscript fragments and drafts, newspaper clippings, and Zula Maud Woodhull's correspondence relating to the journal the Humanitarian and notes of her attempted biography of her mother.

4 boxes (2 cubic feet)

Boston Public Library, Central Library in Copley Square

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SNAC Resource ID: 8126380

Boston Public Library, Central Library in Copley Square

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Boston Public Library. Special Collections.

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Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927

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Victoria C. Woodhull was a woman's rights pioneer who achieved notoriety on many fronts in Gilded Age America. She founded (with her sister Tennessee Claflin) a Wall Street brokerage, with the support and advice of Cornelius Vanderbilt. Woodhull used profits to publish Woodhull & Claflin Weekly, advocating female suffrage, free love, and other progressive causes. Later she addressed House committee on suffrage, and exposed the Beecher-Tilton scandal, implicating celebrated minister Henry War...

Woodhull, Zula Maud

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Martin, John Biddulp, 1841-1897

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