Mrs. Satan
was what the press called her.
She represented the worst fears of the male establishment.
She was a dangerous woman.
She dared to run for President at a time when women couldn't vote.
She scandalized conventional morality by daring to flaunt women’s sexuality.
She spent election night in jail.
Victoria Woodhull clairvoyant, radical, publisher, jailbird, stockbroker, free lover, was a Presidential candidate. She scaled the heights of high society before her exposure of a sex scandal involving the popular preacher Henry Ward Beecher sent her plummeting. Admired by some and feared by many, Woodhull was dubbed "Mrs. Satan" by political satirist Thomas Nast.
Her life reads like grand opera. It has all the drama of myth and legend, and yet she was real, and human and at times, frail.
Mrs. President
focuses on Victoria’s relationship with Beecher, and how these two powerful and charismatic people at first tried to love, and then to destroy each other.
