Tag: free-love
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Crossing Swords on bookshelf of Mary Baker Eddy Library in Boston
The Mary Baker Eddy Library, home of the ever-popular Mapparium giant globe exhibit, is adding a new historical biography by Cindy Safronoff to its collection — Crossing Swords: Mary Baker Eddy vs. Victoria Claflin Woodhull and the Battle for the Soul of Marriage (This One Thing, July 4, 2015). This nonfiction drama that sets Mary…
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The Lynn historic house where Eddy crossed swords with Woodhull
In the year 1876, soon-to-be-famous Mary Baker Eddy “crossed swords” with Victoria Woodhull in the newspaper columns of the Lynn Transcript. At the time, Eddy lived here in this historic house in Lynn, Massachusetts. To promote herself as a candidate for President of the United States, Woodhull had been traveling the country for several years…
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Victoria Woodhull’s Tumultuous 1872 Presidential Campaign: Woman Suffrage and Social Freedom
“Victory for Victoria!” When Victoria Claflin Woodhull announced her candidacy for the 1872 Presidential election, she called herself the woman suffrage candidate. No law prevented women from running for public office, and Woodhull had the support and admiration of many well-known women’s rights leaders. It is widely known that Susan B. Anthony was arrested for trying to…