LAS VEGAS, Aug. 21, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Karen J. Hicks announced today that her latest novel The Coming Woman, published by Sartoris Literary Group, is now available for sale on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The Coming Woman is based on the life of feminist Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for U.S. President, 50 years before women could even vote!
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On April 2, 1870, readers of the New York Herald open their newspapers to an astonishing headline: "The Coming Woman, Victoria C. Woodhull, to race for the White House!" And so begins the story of power, politics, promiscuity, and persecution surrounding one of the most fascinating and controversial women in American history.
Reactions to Victoria's announcement are mostly amused. After all, women can't even vote! But she and her sister already mix it up with the men on Wall Street, running the first woman-owned and run brokerage firm, and now she launches the first successful mainstream newspaper to be run by a woman. When she becomes the first woman to enter the bastion of male dominance, the House Judiciary Committee, her argument that the 14th and 15th Amendments already give women the vote stuns the men and electrifies the women!
As her power and influence grow, the male-dominated media attacks. Victoria counters the assaults by becoming bolder, urging women to revolt—even to secede—if they are not recognized as citizens. Such radical views, combined with her political ambitions, stir up controversy, but she will not be deterred.
On May 10, 1872, the Equal Rights Party officially nominates her as its Presidential candidate, with former-slave-turned-statesman Frederick Douglass as her V.P. If she thought she was persecuted before, it is nothing compared to what follows…
"What kind of confidence would it take for a woman to buck the old boy's club of politics in 1872? More than 140 years pre-Hillary, there was Victoria Woodhull. This book takes you back with a breathtaking, present tense bird's eye view into a time when women's liberation was primarily confined to one woman's very capable, independent mind. I couldn't put it down." – Ruth Buzzi, Comedienne, Entertainer
To learn more, go to http://www.karenjhicks.com/. For further information, to request a review copy of The Coming Woman, or to interview Karen Hicks, please contact Kelsey McBride via email or 805.807.9027.