Episode 247 Victoria C. Woodhull - Spiritualist, Stockbroker, Presidential Candidate and Icon

What an episode!!! In Arthur's Corner, he discusses fudge, chocolate chip cookies and 12 Angry Men.  We also discuss the neurodivergent line that seems to run through our family.  Then we settle down and begin to discuss this week's subject, Victoria California Woodhull.  This woman, born to a devout spiritualist and a con man that got them ran out of their Homer Ohio home.  She's married to a 'doctor' at 15 and works travelling medicine shows and spiritualist spectacles which eventually leads her to meet Cornelius Vanderbilt.  She becomes a powerful figure, who believes in women's suffrage, the Free Love Movement (which in the 1860's is very different from the similarly named movement of the 1960's).  She starts a newspaper and so much more in this about to be a movie starring Brie Larson episode of the Family Plot Podcast!Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/family-plot--4670465/support. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices