Tag: Victoria Woodhull
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Presidential elections and woman’s hour
Mary Baker Eddy and Victoria Woodhull discussion at Daystar Retirement Village Today Cindy Safronoff held a book talk for Crossing Swords: Mary Baker Eddy vs. Victoria Claflin Woodhull and the Battle for the Soul of Marriage at Daystar Retirement Village in West Seattle. It was an intimate audience of about 9 people — a mix…
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Woodhull in 1872 election reenactment at St. Louis historic site
Victoria Woodhull will be included in a historic reenactment at a National Park Service historic site in the St. Louis area this weekend. Living History Weekend at the Ulysses S. Grant national historic site will feature the 1872 Presidential election, in which Victoria Woodhull made history by being the first woman to run as a third-party contender.…
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Crossing Swords on sale at Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store offers 20% off at events, so Crossing Swords: Mary Baker Eddy vs. Victoria Claflin Woodhull and the Battle for the Soul of Marriage by Cindy Safronoff will be on discount on August 2, 2016 as part of an in-store event at 7:00PM. The book is now on the event shelf at the front of the store. It is also on the “Women’s,…
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Harvard Book Store hosts Cindy Safronoff Aug 2
Harvard Book Store will host a reading and signing event for author Cindy Safronoff on Tuesday August 2, 2016, at 7:00PM to promote Safronoff’s award-winning historical biography Crossing Swords: Mary Baker Eddy vs. Victoria Claflin Woodhull and the Battle for the Soul of Marriage. You are invited! Click here for an event flier in PDF format.…
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St. Louis Central Library adds Crossing Swords to Special Collections
The downtown St. Louis Central Library, the primary location of one of the top urban library systems in the United States, has recently added to its collection Crossing Swords: Mary Baker Eddy vs. Victoria Claflin Woodhull and the Battle for the Soul of Marriage by Cindy Safronoff. The book is now included in the searchable on-line St.…
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A full house at University Book Store reading event for Crossing Swords
About forty people attended Cindy Safronoff’s reading and signing event at University Book Store on Sunday afternoon, January 17, for Crossing Swords: Mary Baker Eddy vs. Victoria Claflin Woodhull and the Battle for the Soul of Marriage. In addition to people from the University of Washington and residents from the University District neighborhood of Seattle, people…
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Boston Public Library: unlikely home of Victoria Woodhull archive
There is some irony in the fact that the primary Victoria Woodhull archive is in Boston, Massachusetts. Woodhull never lived in Boston. She grew up in rural Ohio, and later lived for short stays throughout the Midwest, including Cincinnati, Ohio, Chicago, Illinois, and St. Louis, Missouri. In her early adulthood she spent a few years in the then wild…
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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…