The Scarlet Sisters (62 page)

15.
see me in my sane state:
TC to VW, at SIU.

16.
“your ‘worthy’ brother.”:
JM to VW, July 23, 1891, at SIU.

17.
if possible to say nothing:
JM to lawyer, Sept. 23, 1892, at SIU.

18.
going beyond the point:
Royal Courts of Justice, Tuesday, January 28, 1894; handwritten transcript of the
Martin v. British Museum
trial, MM, British Museum, June 23, 2011.

19.
reprinted the entire article in 1873:
(London) Times
, Jan. 24, 1894, p. 13; reporting on lawsuit:
Martin and Wife v. Trustees of the British Museum and Edward Maunde Thompson
, the principal librarian.

20.
called her “the queen of prostitutes.”:
(London) Times
, Jan. 24, 1894, p. 13.

21.
according to its rules and regulations:
Ibid.

22.
four hours on the rack:
Ibid.

23.
should have used more care:
Barbara McCrimmon, “Victoria Woodhull Martin Sues the British Museum for Libel,”
The Library Quarterly
45, no. 4 (October 1975): 355–72.

24.
“annoyance which had been caused to them.”:
(London) Times
, March 5, 1894, p. 3, col. 3;
(London) Times
, April 20, 1894, p. 13, col. 3.

25.
Martins had found a defect:
(London) Times
, Feb. 28, 1894, p. 9.

26.
“in respect of libellous matter”:
McCrimmon, “Victoria Woodhull Martin Sues the British Museum for Libel,” p. 228.

27.
‘persecution & insult has ended.’:
SIU.

Chapter Twenty-Six: Widows

1.
I ever met:
Unless otherwise indicated, all letters from JM to VW during his Canary Island journey and her replies to him are from BPL.

2.
do you more good than doctors:
Richard Martin to JM, Ibid.

3.
arrangements with an undertaker or agent:
Ibid.

4.
my life has been made wretched:
SIU.

5.
kill me as they did Johnny:
Ibid.

6.
spent enormous sums in philanthropy:
Chicago Daily Tribune
, Feb. 17, 1901, p. 11; special cable from London, Feb. 16, 1901.

7.
“well known New York merchant.”:
Baltimore Sun
, Feb. 19, 1901, p. 2.

8.
not being remembered in his will:
London Constitution
, April 4, 1901, p. 1.

9.
slanders shall be stamped out:
Washington Post
, April 5, 1901; and
New York Times
, April 5, 1901, p. 6.

10.
SHE DIDN’T KILL HER HUSBAND:
Baltimore Sun
, April 5, 1901, p. 2.

11.
the sorrowing widow:
Atlanta Constitution
, Dec. 14, 1902, p. 3.

12.
awarded Wallace £550:
(London) Times
, March 4, 1903, p. 3.

13.
she cried, “Cruel, cruel.”:
Chicago Daily Tribune
, March 4, 1903, p. 3;
Baltimore Sun
, March 4, 1903, p. 8.

14.
a blackmailing action:
New York Times
, June 14, 1903;
(London) Times
, July 16, 1903, p. 10.

15.
“remanded to the Kingston Workhouse.”:
(London) Times
, July 16, 1903, p. 10.

16.
kept in the Doughty Gallery:
New York Times
, March 14, 1901, p. 9.

17.
His handsome bequest in his will:
Owen Stinchcombe,
American Lady of the Manor, Bredon’s Norton; The Later Life of Victoria Woodhull Martin, 1901–1927
(self-published, 2000), available at http://www.amazon.co.uk/American-Lady-Manor-Owen-Stinchcombe/dp/B000KGMI5O.

18.
get the world and lose soul power:
Gabriel,
Notorious Victoria
, p. 286.

Chapter Twenty-Seven: Moving On

1.
he had buried them at sea:
Gabriel,
Notorious Victoria
, p. 287.

2.
inscribed the names of poets:
Norton Park MM visit; with owner, Debby Booth, June 25, 2011.

3.
tried to “clear out my daughter,”:
New York Times
, June 5, 1895, p. 2.

4.
to Queen Victoria:
Underhill,
The Woman Who Ran for President
.

5.
in London and Portugal:
New York Times
, June 5, 1895, p. 2.

6.
Victoria’s insistence:
Stinchcombe,
American Lady of the Manor
.

7.
halted a charity:
Ibid.

8.
“well known figure of the Ohio bar.”:
Ibid., pp. 21, 27–28.

9.
“Certificate of Efficiency.”:
Stinchcombe,
American Lady of the Manor
, pp. 50–55.

10.
white-haired lady:
“Lady Cook’s Crusade,”
Chicago Chronicle
, Jan. 1, 1905, in SIU.

11.
blinds were drawn:
Ibid.

12.
time for “my American sisters”:
Washington Post
, Feb. 2, 1907, p. 6.

13.
plenty of money working for him:
Chicago Tribune
, Aug. 30, 1908, p. 1.

14.
see that millions want it:
New York Times
, Oct. 11, 1908.

15.
only idiots, the insane, and convicts:
Chicago Tribune
, Oct. 19, 1909, p. 5.

16.
malodorous and hideously dirty:
New York Times
, Oct. 23, 1909.

17.
we do not get along very well:
New York Times
, June 2, 1910.

18.
“breach of contract” suit:
New York Times
, Sept. 17, 1910.

19.
isn’t one good enough—not yet:
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 12, 1913.

20.
the days of Grecian draperies:
Ibid.

21.
glad when it is over:
SIU.

22.
property in their wives’ names:
New York Times
, Feb. 4, 1911, p. 2.

23.
“hurricane of applause.”:
The Grey River Argus
, Jan. 21, 1910, p. 4.

24.
enunciation of her unchangeable opinion:
Unless otherwise indicated, her speech and comments are from her May 6, 1910, lecture,
The Need of Revising Morals and Laws
(London: Christy and Lilly, Ltd., n.d.).

25.
sells herself at the altar:
“Lady Cook’s Crusade,”
Chicago Chronicle
, Sunday Morning, January 1, 1905.

26.
decent men into Parliament:
May 6, 1910, lecture.

Chapter Twenty-Eight: Last Acts

1.
their homes, their honor, their children:
New York Times
, Aug. 17, 1914.

2.
marching, scouting, and the use of arms:
Professor Joanna Bourke, writing for the BBC History World War One series
Women on the Home Front in World War One
and
Women and the Military in World War One
, available online. Bourke, a prize-winning historian and author, is professor of history, Birbeck College, University of London.

3.
their blood freely given:
SIU.

4.
No sophistry will answer:
Ibid.

5.
make the world safe for democracy:
MM,
All Governments Lie!: The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I. F. Stone
(New York: Scribner, 2006), pp. 55–56; original source John Graham,
Yours for the Revolution: The Appeal to Reason, 1895–1922
(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, republished 1990), p. 285.

6.
We must be so now:
SIU.

7.
nothing to fear with the war being over:
Ibid.

8.
my health and meeting my God:
Ibid.

9.
Henry Clews’s scathing comments:
New York Times
, Jan. 10, 1923.

10.
granting letters of administration:
New York Times
, March 22, 1923.

11.
Polly Sparr argued:
New York Times
, March 8, 1923.

12.
she would give $5,000:
Stinchcombe,
American Lady of the Manor
.

13.
the understanding of the bible:
BPL.

14.
I would discard
them
:
Ibid.

15.
take any part in her life:
SIU.

16.
I cannot reason with my heart:
BPL.

17.
an excellent platform speaker:
Victoria Woodhull obituary,
(London) Times
, June 11, 1927.

18.
put me right before the world:
SIU.

Epilogue: Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

1.
54 percent of rapes go unreported:
For the statistics on rape, see Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network (RAINN), the nation’s largest anti-sexual violence organization, at http://www.rainn.org/get-information/statistics/reporting-rates. Out of one hundred rapes reported, only three rapists will ever serve any jail time.

2.
an estimated 200,000 women:
Jaeah Lee, “Charts: This Is What Happens When You Defund Planned Parenthood.”
Mother Jones
, March 24, 2013.

3.
Shameful doesn’t even begin to describe it:
Published May 16, 2012, on Congresswoman Louise M. Slaughter’s website, http://www.louise.house.gov.

4.
longest-serving female member of the House:
U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) has served the longest of any female in history on Capitol Hill, first as a member of Congress and then in the United States Senate from 1986 until the present.

5.
The Republican Party brought in coaches:
Jill Filipovic, “Why the Election Wasn’t the Feminist Victory Many Had Hoped For,”
Cosmopolitan
, Nov. 6, 2014; Robin Marty, “Voters Overwhelmingly Reject Extreme Anti-Abortion Measures,”
Cosmopolitan
, Nov. 5, 2014; Greg Sargent, “Joni Ernst tries to cover her tracks on ‘Personhood,’ ”
Washington Post
, Oct. 3, 2014.

6.
I could go on forever:
E-mail interview with MM, March 24 and 31, 2013.

7.
Papua New Guinea and Swaziland:
“Landmark Family Leave Law Doesn’t Help Millions of Workers,”
Washington Post
, Feb. 10, 2013. Statistics quoted from McGill and Harvard University research.

8.
vital assistance to millions of women:
http://obamacarefacts.com/obamacare-womens-health-services.php.

9.
women continue to earn less:
Christianne Corbett and Catherine Hill, “Graduating to a Pay Gap: The Earnings of Women and Men One Year
after Graduation,” researched and written for the American Association of University Women (AAUW).

10.
linked sexual assaults to the problem:
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/06/06/foxs-allen-west-uses-military-sexual-assault-ep/194378.

11.
26,000 cases of sexual assaults and rapes:
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand interview on the
Daily Show
, Aug. 9, 2013.

12.
This New Departure did galvanize:
Wheeler,
One Woman, One Vote
, pp. 76 and 82.

13.
“annals of emancipation.”:
Newark Sunday Call
, Jan. 2, 1876;
The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
; Goldsmith,
Other Powers
, p. 427.

14.
cohabitation, single parenthood, and same-sex relationships:
Pew Research, Social & Demographic Trends, “Barely Half of U.S. Adults Are Married—A Record Low,” Dec. 14, 2011, at http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2011/12/14/barely-half-of-u-s-adults-are-married-a-record-low.

15.
an ally in Colbert Busch:
John Dickerson,
Slate
, May 7, 2013.

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