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We Are Not Amused
by Laura Resnick
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Copyright (c)1992 Laura Resnick
First published in Alternate Presidents, Tor Books, February 1992

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_Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1838-1927) travelled across the United
States throughout her youth with her family's medicine and fortune-telling
show, giving demonstrations in spiritualism with her younger sister,
Tennessee. In 1868, the sisters settled in New York City, where they
befriended Cornelius Vanderbuilt, who set them up in a successful
stock-brokerage firm. They used their profits to found Woodhull and Claflin's
Weekly, a women's-rights magazine._
_Woodhull espoused Pantarchy, free love, women's suffrage, short
skirts, legalized prostitution, and the right of women to orgasm. In 1872 she
became the first woman to run for the presidency, being nominated by her own
Equal Rights Party. In addition to being unable to vote because she was a
woman, Woodhull was arrested with her sister and imprisoned for
obscenity-printing the Beecher-Tilton Scandal in the Weekly -- the day before
the election. _
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The following letters have been excerpted from _Correspondence Between the
Victorias: An Insight Into the Decline of Victorianism, 1872-1880_ by Dr.
Wiantha Woodhull. The author is a descendant of President Victoria Woodhull
(1872-1876) and Attorney General Zula Maud Woodhull (1904-1908). The book will
be published in its entirety this spring by Femme Fatale Press, cover price
$16.95.
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SANDRINGHAM, 10th December 1872:
Her Majesty Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of
India, wishes to convey her sincere felicitations to the President Elect of
the United States of America, Mrs. Victoria Woodhull. The Queen was _very
strongly_, though not unpleasantly, surprised to learn from Mr. Gladstone that
Mrs. Woodhull has succeeded to the highest elected office of her charming