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Woodhull

American  
[wood-huhl] / ˈwʊdˌhʌl /

noun

  1. Victoria Claflin 1838–1927, U.S. social reformer, newspaper publisher, and women's-rights advocate.


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But then Victoria Woodhull herself paid no attention to such niceties.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

And from Susan B. Anthony to Victoria Woodhull, Lepore depicts the suffragettes who marched for decades, often in tension with Black feminists, before they won the franchise.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2025

These included people reading presidential candidate Victoria Woodhull's popular newspaper, Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly, which Comstock continually tried to shut down.

From Scientific American • Apr. 28, 2023

Woodhull, for instance, moved to England and “rewrote her past,” extolling the benefits of monogamy and “denying that she had been a free lover.”

From New York Times • Jul. 12, 2021

At the meeting, Woodhull established the Equal Rights Party, which then nominated her as its candidate for president of the United States.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling