(WOMEN) Tilton Theodore Victoria C Woodhull A Biographical S

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(WOMEN.) Tilton, Theodore. Victoria C. Woodhull: A Biographical Sketch. 35, [1] pages. 12mo, original printed wrappers; some wear and dampstaining, vertical fold. New York: The Golden Age, 1871

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A campaign biography of the first female candidate for president. Victoria Woodhull (1838-1927) was a renaissance woman. Raised in poverty, she became a stockbroker, spiritualist lecturer, newspaper editor, and radical suffrage advocate before announcing her intention to run for president in 1870 at the age of 32. This biography was published the following year, and in 1872 she helped found the Equal Rights Party to support her candidacy. The party nominated Frederick Douglass as her running mate, although he never formally accepted the nomination or campaigned. Woodhull was arrested days before the 1872 election on obscenity charges, because of free-love arguments made in her newspaper. As she was not yet 35, she was not technically eligible for the presidency.