Flynn does not consider Victoria innocent and convincingly suggests that Victoria’s stubborn defiance harms her children and destroys her relationship with James. Satan,” and she lands in New York’s worst prison on trumped-up obscenity charges. Victoria’s life as a “free lover” is tinder for her enemies, who brand her “Mrs. She campaigns for women’s suffrage and legal protections in marriage, divorce, and business, and she later embraces Marxism she becomes rich as the first female stockbroker, advocating for women with noted suffragette Susan B. There, in the late 1860s, Victoria falls in love with Colonel James Blood, but the specifics of her divorce and remarriage are unclear. A practicing psychic, Victoria becomes the breadwinner, and they settle in New York with their children. Canning provides his child bride with an escape from her father, until his addictions destroy their marriage and his career.
Canning Woodhull in 1853 Ohio, at age 14. After a childhood corrupted by incest, Victoria marries Dr. Victoria is not your conventional heroine, but in this time of the United States, conventions mattered little.Flynn’s fictional portrait of women’s-rights champion Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for president of the United States, is a striking and sobering depiction of a progressive and controversial figure nearly lost in history. Victoria Woodhull is a multifaceted character who evokes empathy, the occasional laugh, and ultimately sympathy for the plight of the hardworking woman. That is what ultimately sets them apart from those in the history books.Įva Flynn’s work is powerful in its portrayal of a renegade suffragette. They are iconoclasts who are not willing to tread lightly in their path towards the vote, but will burn every bridge if necessary. Victoria throws herself fully into the woman’s equality movement along with her sister Tennessee. She also equates the handicap of her son with her husband’s lust for drink. She sees parallels between the move for freedom of African Americans and women in the United States. Victoria marries the dashing Canning and immerses herself in the anti-slavery movement, but is subject to the drudgery of her new husband’s drinking and womanizing. Her wretched future is derailed by the seeming good nature of Canning Woodhull, who frees her from the captivity of her abusive father. She is given the gift of clairvoyance, yet exploited and abused by her huckster pimp father. Our protagonist is the sixth of ten children, conceived in a tent during a revival. But this is getting ahead of the book at hand, The Renegade Queen. She is at the forefront of the women’s suffrage movement along with the likes of Susan B. Victoria Claflin is a woman for the ages: this would be true except for the fact that her role in history, if not women’s history, hadn’t been sanitized, or even scrubbed out.
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