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Notorious Victoria

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by Mary Gabriel

blackmailers of wife and, 259, 261

  death of, 298

  Cook, Senator, 73, 78

  Cook, Son & Company, 257

  Cooke, Jay, 47

  Cooper Institute, 151, 153, 175

  government failure lecture, 219–21

  Victoria’s disguised lecture at, 201–202

  Corsican Brothers, The, 16, 17

  Cosmopolitical Party, platform of, 95–96, 303–307

  Cotton, Mr., 215–18

  Coventry, Earl of, 291

  Crawford, Frances (Frank), 40

  Cuckoo, The, 253–54

  Cummings, Dr., 208

  D

  Davis, General Noah, 187, 206

  Davis, Paulina Wright, 75, 79, 83–84, 120, 123, 158

  Beecher-Tilton scandal and, 107, 184

  “Declaration of Principles” (Seneca Falls), 29

  Democratic Party, 59, 95, 178

  Demosthenes (spirit voice), 31, 32, 132, 145, 150, 270–71

  Denyse, William, 188

  depression of 1876, 241

  Detroit Sunday News-Tribune, 293

  de Vay, Baron Nicholas, 293

  Dickens, Charles, 71, 203

  Dickinson, Anna, 91, 132

  Douglass, Frederick, 37

  illustrated, 173

  nominated as vice president, 171–72

  Drew, Daniel, 34, 47

  Dykman, Judge J. O., 242

  E

  Edward II, King, 293

  Ehrenberg, Dr., 128

  Eldridge, Senator, 73, 76

  Ellery, George, 210

  Epstein, Jacob, 256

  Equal Rights Party, 125, 126, 130, 193

  nominating convention of, 170–72

  platform and resolutions of, 171

  reconstitution of, 264

  Erie Railroad, 34

  Evans, Rosina, 289

  F

  Field, Kate, 91

  financial crash of 1873, 219, 221

  Fisk, Jim, 34, 46, 88, 175

  Fisk & Hatch, 50

  Fourth National Bank, 46

  Fowler, Judge, 193

  Fox, Kate and Margaret, 10–11

  Frank Leslie’s Budget of Fun, 150

  free love, 60, 63, 98, 108, 150

  confrontation concerning, at spiritualist convention, 215–18

  defined, 96–97

  hypocritical attitude toward, 111, 117–18

  speech on, see “Principles of Social Freedom” speech

  “Tried As By Fire” speech and, 223–24

  Victoria’s renouncing of, 246, 253–54

  French Ball, 195, 226, 227

  Fuller, Margaret, 27

  Fullerton, Judge, 226

  G

  Gage, John, 130

  Gage, Matilda Joslyn, 164

  “Garden of Eden: or, Paradise Lost and Found, The,” 241–42

  Garrison, William Lloyd, 37

  German American Progressive Association, 128–29

  Gilsey House, 175, 176–77

  Gleichen, Countess Helena, 292–93

  Golden Age, The, 92–93, 120, 125–26, 190

  Goldschmidt, Otto, 93

  Gould, Jay, 34, 40

  “government failure” speech, 219–21

  Grand Central Hotel, 154

  Grant, Ulysses S., 23, 174, 178, 193

  Greeley, Horace, 58, 62, 68, 90, 97, 112, 116, 132

  election of 1872 and, 174, 175, 178, 190

  Greenwich Bank, 50

  Greenwood Cemetery, 213

  Griffing, Josephine S., 75, 78

  H

  Harned, S. W., 48

  Harper, Ida, 169

  Harper’s, 34, 166

  Hastings, Hugh, 47, 48

  Hatch, Rufus, 48

  Hawkins Zouave Band, 154

  Hearth and Home, 121–22

  Henriques, George, 48

  Hermes Lodge, 296

  Hoffman House, 42

  Holbrooke, Judge Edmund S., 215

  Holland, Penelope, 249–50

  Holland, Robert, 284, 287

  Hooker, Isabella Beecher, 74–75, 78, 158, 164, 169, 183

  supports Victoria, 89–90, 97–98, 107–108

  after split from NWSA, 172, 174

  Howe, William F.:

  described, 188, 194

  as sisters’ lawyer, 189, 193, 201, 202–203, 206

  Hudson, Deacon, 191

  Hull, Moses, 171

  “Human Body, the Temple of God, The,” 247

  Humanitarian, The, 243, 264

  articles in, 278–79, 291

  after Martin’s death, 286

  Martin’s obituary, 284

  last issue of, 288

  success of, 266

  Zula and, 285

  human rights, 168

  Hummel, Abraham H., 189

  described, 188

  hypocrisy, 107–108, 119, 175, 176

  free love and, 111, 117–18

  lecture concerning, 200–201

  I

  Illustrated, 59

  “Impending Revolution” speech, 160–63

  delivery of, 161–62

  reaction to, 162–63

  turnout for, 160–61

  Independent, The, 58–59, 107, 118, 150, 189

  Tilton at, 114, 116, 117

  individual freedom, 96

  International Agricultural Club and School of Intensive Petite Culture, 291–92

  International Workingmen’s Association (IWA), 123–25, 174

  Byrnes and, 151–52, 259, 261

  funeral marches of, 151–56

  ousting of Victoria’s section of, 156–57, 163

  J

  Jackson, Captain, 261–62

  Jacquelin, John R., 48

  James, Henry, Sr., 62

  Jarvis, Judson, 203

  Jay Cooke & Co., 219

  Jefferson Market Court, 194

  Jefferson Market prison, 188

  Joan of Arc, 102, 132

  Johnson, Andrew, 34

  Jordan, Mr., 211

  Julian, George, 172

  K

  Kant, Immanuel, 300

  Kemble, Fanny, 92

  L

  labor movement, 123–25, 163

  growing consensus against, 174

  W & C’s Weekly and, 160

  Ladies Automobile Club, 290

  Lady Cook & Co., 298

  Leclercq, Mme., 155

  Lee, Robert E., 23

  “Legend of Good Women, A,” 120

  Leland, Mrs. H. S., 155

  Lemont, Charles A., 48

  Le Roy, H. R., 48

  Leslie, Frank, 59, 150

  Lewis, Sinclair, 106

  Liberal Republicans, 174, 178

  “Life Sketches,” 250–51

  Lincoln, Abraham, 19, 20, 23, 25, 105

  Lind, Jenny, 93

  Livermore, Mary, 37, 59, 119, 120

  lobbyists, 82

  Lockwood, Belva, 262

  London Times, 250, 270–73

  Loughridge, Senator, 73, 78, 82

  Ludlow Street jail, 187–97, 202

  M

  McFarland Case, 141

  Magnetic Healing Institute, 165, 166

  magnetism, 20, 34

  Manhattan Club-house, 155

  Manor House Club, 292–93

  Mansfield, Josie, 88

  marriage, nineteenth century, 12–14, 22, 62, 148–49

  children and, 214–15

  costs of divorce, 139

  free love and, 96–97

  speech concerning, see “Principles of Social Freedom” speech

  Victoria’s position on, 37–39, 196–97, 222–24

  Martin, John Biddulph:

  courtship and marriage, 250–55

  Victoria’s past and, 250–54

  defense of Victoria, 259–63

  Martin v. British Museum, 268–76

  described, 247–48, 284

  family of, 251, 262, 285, 286–87

  home of, 256

  illnes
s and death of, 281–84

  ashes of, 284, 287

  sense of loss following, 285–86

  will and, 285

  illustrated, 266

  love notes, to and from Victoria, 251, 256–57, 262, 276–77, 282–83

  illustrated, 260

  in Philadelphia, 259

  resemblance of his sister’s writings to Victoria’s, 249–50

  Martin, Julia, 252

  Martin, Richard, 252

  Martin, Robert, 281, 285

  Marx, Karl, 123, 125, 156

  Maxwell, Mr., 195

  Melland, Dr. Brian, 283–84

  Miles, Channing, 187

  Miles, Enos, 10

  Miles, Margaret Ann (Maggie), 10, 20, 32

  death of Dr. Woodhull and, 165–66

  Mill, John Stuart, 240

  Minor, Francis, 38

  Minor, Virginia, 38

  Modern Times, 30, 96

  Moffat, Mayor, 221

  Monsieur New York, 203

  Moon, Washington, 274

  Moony & Boland, 261

  “Moral Cowardice & Modern Hypocrisy,” 200–201

  Morning Post, 291

  Mott, Lucretia, 3, 29, 91, 92, 94, 120

  split in women’s rights movement and, 38, 60

  Moulton, Frank, 140, 141, 145, 230, 237

  Plymouth Church investigation and, 230, 232, 233

  Munday, Luther, 292–93

  “My Wife and I,” 105–106, 234

  disclaimer of, 133–34

  N

  “Naked Truth, The,” 201

  Nast, Thomas, 166

  National Committee of Women, 79

  National Female Suffrage Convention, 37, 38

  National Guard’s Ninth Regiment, 175

  National Woman’s Rights Convention, 37–38, 78–81

  National Woman’s Suffrage Association (NWSA), 79, 92

  conventions of, 94–96, 158–59, 164

  Victoria’s departure from, 166–69, 172, 174

  formation of, 60–61

  Nelson, Judge, 238

  newspapers, 58–59

  New York by Gaslight, 16

  New York City in 1868, 32–33

  New York Commercial Advertiser, The, 58

  New York County Bank, 50

  New York Dispatch, 55

  New York Evening Journal, 262

  New York Evening Post, 58

  New York Evening Telegraph, 124

  New York Herald, 1, 2, 49, 56, 58, 61, 77, 94, 136, 151, 219

  Claflin-Blood lawsuit and, 99–105

  “Impending Revolution” speech, 160–61

  interviews Victoria and Tennie, 42–45, 51–52

  People’s Party convention and, 170

  scandal issue and, 186–87, 188, 212, 237

  Victoria’s statement about, 195–97

  “Social Freedom” speeches and, 144–49, 214, 215

  New York Stock Exchange, 1–3

  New York Sun, 1, 66, 171, 175, 176, 221, 258, 259

  death of Dr. Woodhull and, 165–66

  illness of Victoria and, 208–209

  “Impending Revolution” speech and, 160, 161

  IWA funeral marches and, 151, 153

  opening of Woodhull, Claflin & Co., 47–48

  scandal issue and, 186, 190, 193, 237, 238

  Tennie and:

  congressional bid, 128–29

  court case, 52, 53

  New York Times, The, 124, 144

  “Impending Revolution” speech and, 162–63

  scandal issue and, 186, 190, 212, 228

  Victoria’s letters to, 110–13, 114

  New York Tribune, 58, 62, 90, 112, 116, 174, 237

  praises Victoria, 97

  New York World, 46–47, 50, 58, 65, 170

  IWA funeral marches and, 154–55, 156

  Victoria’s attempt to vote and, 136–38

  Northern Pacific Railroad, 219

  Norton Park mansion, 286–90

  Norwood (Beecher), 107

  Noyes, John Humphrey, 30, 265

  O

  Oneida, 30, 265

  Orations of Demosthenes, The, 32

  Osborne Commissioner, 187

  P

  Paris Commune, 123, 124, 125, 170, 261

  defeat of, 151

  Park & Tifford, 50

  Paul, St., 120, 121

  Paulist socialism, 240

  People’s Convention, 164

  People’s Party, 164, 166–69

  nominating convention of, 170–72

  Phelps, District Attorney, 203

  Phillips, Wendell, 37

  Plymouth Church, 107, 116, 178, 179

  Beecher-Tilton scandal and, see Beecher-Tilton scandal, Plymouth Church and

  “Political, Social, Industrial and Educational Equity,” 171

  Polk, James, 10

  Pollock, Judge Baron, 271–75

  Pomeroy, Senator Samuel Clarke, 74

  “Present Revision of Morals and Laws, The,” 298

  Press of Philadelphia, The, 73, 74–75

  “Primary Synopsis of Universology,” 62

  “Principles of Social Freedom” speech, 138–50

  basis for, 138–39

  Rev. Beecher and, 139–42, 145

  Brooker and, 147–48

  delivery of, 146–49

  divorce and, 139

  placards announcing, 143–44

  reaction to, 149–50

  Tilton and, 140, 141–42, 147, 148

  introduction by, 145–46, 150

  turnout for, 144–45

  Professional Criminals of America (Byrnes), 26

  promiscuity, 97

  prostitution, 58, 64, 177

  Treat’s pamphlet and, 234

  Psyche Club, 221–22

  Purdy, Mr., 211–12

  R

  Rapid Multiplication of the Unfit, The (Martin), 265

  Rees, T. W., 187

  Regan, Edward, 188, 189

  Republican Party, 59–60, 68, 95

  election of 1872 and, 174

  Revolution, The, 41, 54, 59

  Reymart, Judge, 103, 210

  Victoria’s attempt to vote and, 136–38

  Roosevelt, Theodore, 298

  Rossel, Louis Nathaniel, 151

  funeral marches in honor of, 151–56

  Russell, Attorney General Sir Charles, 269–75

  S

  St. Barnabas Charity School, 156

  St. James Hall, 267

  St. Louis Globe, 114

  Sand, George, 59, 92

  San Francisco in the 1850s, 15–16

  Saywell, Reverend William J. E., 289

  “Scarecrows of Social Freedom, The,” 214–15, 249

  Schoenberg, Miss, 262

  scientific agriculture, 291–92

  “Scientific Propagation of the Human Race, The,” 267

  Scotland Yard, 258

  Second Great Awakening, 11

  Seneca Falls women’s rights convention, 29–30

  Shepherd, Mrs., 226

  Shipman, Judge, 192

  Skidmore Light Guard, 154

  slavery, abolition of, 37, 158

  prime movers in, 196

  Smith, Police Commissioner Henry, 155, 156

  Smith, Laura Cuppy, 172

  Smith, William, 188

  social engineering, 265, 267

  social science, 265

  Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 278

  Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 278

  Sorge, Frederich, 156–57

  Sparr, Mary, 10, 20, 32

  Claflin-Blood lawsuit and, 100–104

  Spencer Grays, 176

  spiritualism:

  Anna Claflin and, 102, 104

  conventions:

  in Boston, 178–79

  in Chicago, 215–18

  in Cleveland, 134

  in Troy, N.Y., 131–32

  in Vineland, N.J., 130–31, 214–15

 
Miles and, 165

  prostitution and, 21

  sexuality and, 23

  spirit rappings, 10–11

  split in movement, 214, 215, 218, 233, 241

  Tilton on, 121, 122

  Vanderbilt and, 34, 36, 245–46

  see also under Claflin, Tennessee; Woodhull, Victoria C.

  Spiritualists of Northern Ohio, 134

  Spotted Tail, 172

  Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 4, 29, 41, 59, 94, 158, 164, 167

  Beecher-Tilton scandal and, 107, 184, 193, 204

  death of, 297–98

  as defender of Victoria, 91–92, 119–20, 251

  illustrated, 85

  NWSA convention and, 167, 168

  split in women’s rights movement and, 37–38, 60, 61

  Stearns, Sarah Burger, 97

  Steinway Hall, 166–68, 172

  Steinway Hall speech, see “Principles of Social Freedom” speech

  Stephen, Leslie, 256

  stirpiculture, 265

  Stone, Lucy, 37, 59, 120

  Story of Henry Ward Beecher and Theodore Tilton and Mrs. Tilton with Portraits, The, 268–76

  Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 19, 135, 181

  attacks Victoria, 105–106, 133, 234

  disclaimer, 133–34

  Beecher-Tilton scandal and, 198, 200

  illustrated, 199

  suffrage, women’s, 138

  alienation of the suffragists, 159

  Article IV of the Constitution and, 68, 69

  Congressional address by Victoria, 69–87

  Hooker’s homage to Victoria, 172, 174

  leadership of, 94–95

  split in women’s movement over, 37–38, 60–61, 158, 168

  Victoria’s attempt to vote, 136–38

  Sulgrave Manor, 296

  Sulgrave Movement, 296

  Sutherland, Duchess of, 290

  Sutherland, Judge, 225, 226–28

  Swendenborg, Emanuel, 63, 132

  Swindell, Annie L., 89

  T

  Taylor’s Hotel, 202

  telegraph, 11

  Teliki, Count Samu, 293

  Tewkesburg Abbey, 301

  Thoreau, Henry David, 96, 107

  “Thunderbolt, The,” 205

  Tilton, Elizabeth, 200, 232

  affair with Beecher, see Beecher-Tilton scandal

  death of, 297

  Tilton, Theodore, 58–59, 154

  Beecher’s affair with wife of, see Beecher-Tilton scandal

  on Blood, 23

  on Claflin family, 11, 18, 20

  comeback of, 178

  death of, 297

  as defender of Victoria, 92–93, 113, 120–22

  described, 114

  election of 1872 and, 174, 175, 190

  expulsion from Plymouth Church, 230–31

  illustrated, 114

  NWSA and, 60–61

  “Social Freedom” speech and, 140, 141–42, 147, 148

  aftermath of, 150

  introduction to, 145–46

  sues Beecher, 233

  Victoria’s documents and, 237–39

  on Victoria, 118, 132

  as biographer, 120–21, 125, 250, 280

  retarded son and, 19

  as a spiritualist, 18, 121, 122, 125, 130

  as Victoria’s lover, 118, 127

  manipulated silence and, 131

 

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