Outrageous

Outrageous: The Victoria Woodhull Saga, Volume One: Rise to Riches by Neal Katz

Neal Katz has written and published a partial biographic novel covering the early years of the life of Victoria Woodhull, a 19th century American woman of great notoriety in her time, who was a pioneering voice in Women's Rights and Sexual Freedom. He promises to complete the story in a second novel due out later this year called Scandalous, the Victoria Woodhull Saga, Volume Two: Fame, Infamy, and Paradise Lost. Winning several awards, including the Independent Book Publishers Association Benjamin Franklin, the Independent Publisher Book Awards IPPY, the Next Generation Indie, and the IndieReader Discovery Award.

Starting in 1847 when Victoria was eight years old, Katz tells her story from the poverty and abuse of her childhood up to 1870 when she, with sister Tennessee Claflin, opened a brokerage firm and became the first female stockbrokers on Wall Street. He portrays a rags to riches rise that is an amazing story of women successfully living outside the defined social limits of the time.

Woodhull, long overlooked by history, has become recognized in recent years for her major role in American thought. In 2001, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. A 1980 Broadway musical entitled Onward Victoria and a 2012 opera "Mrs. President" have been written. Scholarly biographies include:

2014 - The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age, by Myra MacPherson
2004 - Victoria Woodhull's Sexual Revolution: Political Theater and the Popular Press in Nineteenth-Century America, by Amanda Frisken
1998 - Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored, by Mary Gabriel
1998 - Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull, by Barbara Goldsmith
1995 - The Woman Who Ran for President: The Many Lives of Victoria Woodhull, by Lois Beachy Underhill
1980 - The Vixens: A Biography of Victoria and Tennessee Claflin, by James Brough
1976 - Free woman: The life and times of Victoria Woodhull, by Marion Meade
1967 - Vicky: A biography of Victoria C. Woodhull, by M. Marion Marberry
1928 - The Terrible Siren Victoria Woodull 1838-1927, by Emanie Sachs