Victoria Woodhull

Also kind of coming into the fray here is Victoria Woodall, who is, you know, There's a rabbit hole for you to go down.

But Victoria Woodhull, absolutely fascinating character, you know, in addition to women's rights advocate, you know, a spiritualist.

She ran for president.

She's a free love advocate.

So th- there's a lot of currents going on in the 1800s.

Well, fast-forward and, and then Stanton will partner with Victoria Woodhull, who's the first-

Real, real quick, this is going on in the 1800s.

What, what, what is the relation, um, time-wise be- between that and the Second Great Awakening?

Yes

... that are going on in Europe.

So I mentioned Victoria Woodhull, first woman to run for president.

She starts working with Stanton.

You know, she's very was very warm and approachable.

Like, hi, I'm writing a play about Susan B. Anthony and Victoria Woodhull and Francis Wright and Lucretia Martin.

And she's like, how are you going to fit all those women in your play? And then she goes on to tell me now for your listeners who've heard me come on before.

Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for president in 1872.

That's right.

And Gloria goes to tell me, first of all, at the time, Tom Cruise was married to Nicole Kidman.

She was...

You know, just to give a little background, she was a journalist and an author and an activist.

to the Hidden History of Magic.

In the season one finale of The Hidden History of Magic, we are going full circle with an episode about the Gilded Age clairvoyant who was named after Queen Victoria herself, Victoria Woodhull.

Victoria might be one of the most infamous women at the turn of the century, but you've never heard of her, and we'll reveal why.

We talk about her intense, clairvoyant childhood on the road, the Wall Street brokerage that put her in the history books.

complicated relationship to the feminist movement.

and even her journey to run for president at a time when women couldn't even vote.

Buckle up, Buttercup, because Victoria Woodhull's story shows us just how big life can be when we throw out the rulebook and trust in the universe's divine guidance.

Well, Jordan, welcome to the show.

Not it is to be hoped of the old style and blind sort, but revolution in respect to opinions and general institutions.

Victoria C. Woodhull, Fifteen East Thirty-Eighth Street, New York, November 1871.

End of introduction.

Chapter One of Elective Affinities.

So those women who were most, um, radical in their occultist views were actually pushed out of the movement.

Someone like a Victoria Woodhull, who I often use 'cause she has very pro-life views, was pushed out of the movement, seen to be, like, just way too far.

Even Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who, you know, people hold up as being, like, the pioneer of the first wave, certainly made, um, im- some important arguments, but then by the end of her, um, the end of her sort of, you know, tenure, had written The Woman's Bible to sort of think about, uh, a- and, like, really criticize Christianity.

She was pushed out of the movement by the mainstream saying, "No, no, no, no, we're, we see the possibility of making arguments for women's equality within the Bible.