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Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull, by Barbara Goldsmith (Knopf, 531 pp., $30)

WOMEN’S studies is truly phenomenal, something like parthenogenesis. In 1957 The Lunatic Fringe by Gerald W. Johnson contained a chapter about Victoria Woodhull, but now she gets regular full-length biographies. I reviewed one three years ago, and two more have been published so far this year.

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Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull, by Barbara Goldsmith (Knopf, 531 pp., $30)

WOMEN’S studies is truly phenomenal, something like parthenogenesis. In 1957 The Lunatic Fringe by Gerald W. Johnson contained a chapter about Victoria Woodhull, but now she gets regular full-length biographies. I reviewed one three years ago, and two more have been published so far this year.