The Scarlet Sisters by Myra MacPhearson which is the biography of two sisters, Victoria Woodall and Tennessee (Tennie) Clark on, who lived in the Guilded Age. They were the first women stockbrokers, Victoria was the first woman to run for president; they ran around with Cornelius Vanderbuilt; influential in the spiritualist movement and were friends with Queen Victoria. They started from nothing with an abusive alcoholic father who was a con man and a slattern of a mother. Like their father they were con’s. They were also very involved in the free love movement.
Thanks, just requested it! I read a biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt not that long ago, and I remember these women having a major role for a time.
I finished reading “The Scarlet Sisters” this weekend. Fascinating! I thought it was marvelous that Tennessee married the banker with the palace in Portugal.