James supports Victoria's efforts despite his deep fears that she may lose more than the battle. Anthony publishes scandalous rumors about Victoria's past, Victoria enters into a fierce rivalry with Susan to control the women's movement. Victoria then parlays her fortune into the first female-owned brokerage firm. Along with her loose and scandalous sister, Tennessee, Victoria manipulates Vanderbilt and together they conspire to crash the stock market""and profit from it. James introduces Victoria to one of the wealthiest men in America-Commodore Vanderbilt.
But revolutions are expensive, and Victoria needs money. She can stay in an abusive marriage and continue to work as a psychic, or she can take the offer of support from handsome Civil War general James Blood and set about to turn society upside down. It's 1869 and Victoria has a choice to make.
Adored by the poor, hated by the powerful, forced into hiding during their lifetimes and erased from history after death, the legend of their love lives on. Who were they? This is the true story of Victoria Woodhull and the love of her life, James Blood. Their social revolution attracted the unwanted who were left out of the new wealth: the freed slaves, the new immigrants, and women. He was the Hero of Vicksburg, disillusioned with the government after witnessing the devastating carnage of the Civil War. Disgusted by war, he sought a new world." She was the first woman to run for President, campaigning before women could vote. Anthony, who seeks for a variety of reasons to blot Woodhull from history.įlynn’s storytelling is so energetic and her characters so vividly drawn that in addition to being eye-opening on many levels (especially in light of the fact that the United States may well be about to elect its first female President), it is also a page-turner.Two Renegades So Controversial They Were Erased From History"Discarded by society, she led a social revolution. And yet, no! Woodhull, publisher, stockbroker, Suffragette, Communist, and the first female presidential candidate in American history (her running mate was Frederick Douglass), was a very real figure and a regular headline-grabber in the 19 th-century United States.įlynn embarks on the story of this remarkable woman with unabashed enthusiasm, giving us her upbringing, her loves, her controversies, and the controversies that attended this figure Flynn calls a “forgotten feminist.”Īs the book progresses, readers become acutely aware of the fact that the “forgotten” part was not an accident: in a delightful twist, the villain of the book turns out to be none other than Susan B. This amazingly good debut novel by Eva Flynn stars Victoria Woodhull, a figure so outrageous and improbable that most of Flynn’s readers will be tempted at first to think she’s an invention of the author. The Renegade Queen (Rebellious Times, Book 1)
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