Featured on PDR in the collection “Freedom! Equality!! Justice!!!”: Victoria Woodhull’s Impending Revolution (1872)

She was the first woman to run for president. The first female stockbroker to open a brokerage house on Wall Street. The first person to publish Marx and Engels’ Communist Manifesto in the United States. And the first woman to address Congress and drive a motorcar through Hyde Park. She was a leader of the women’s suffrage movement. A champion of the International Workingmen’s Association. The founder of a feminist newspaper read by tens of thousands. An enthusiast of both free love and eugenics-adjacent stirpiculture, she was also a “magnetic healer” who earned a living, and glimpsed a freer, more equal realm, through the doctrines of spiritualism. She was the singular Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1838–1927), “one of the few women”, writes second-wave feminist pioneer Gloria…