Victoria Woodhull ran for President of the United States in 1872 — before women could vote, before women could even walk into most rooms of power. She was the first woman on Wall Street, the first woman to address a congressional committee, and on Election Day she was sitting in jail. History called her Mrs. Satan and then forgot her entirely.

Kate Danaher spent years bringing her back — and the result is Unstoppable: The Victoria Woodhull Story, a debut novel that reminds us just how much of history has been deliberately erased, and how much we lose when it is.

Show Notes

Kate Danaher is a woman who clearly has a thing for remarkable women who refused to stay quiet.

Her debut novel, Unstoppable: The Victoria Woodhull Story, brings to life one of the most astonishing figures in American history — a woman most of us have never heard of, and probably should have. In 1872, Victoria Woodhull was the most famous woman in America. She ran for U.S. President on the Equal Rights Party ticket against, most notably, Ulysses S. Grant — and spent Election Day in jail. She was also the first woman to operate a Wall Street brokerage firm, a newspaper publisher who introduced American audiences to the works of Karl Marx, and the first woman to directly address a congressional committee. And history essentially erased her.

Kirkus Reviews calls the novel “a compulsively readable portrait full of rich characterization and well-observed historical detail” and Mary Gabriel — who wrote her own biography of Victoria Woodhull — calls the novel ‘a revelation,’ saying that Danaher combines the work of a skilled researcher with the flair of a poet to resurrect Victoria as she truly was, not as history has incorrectly depicted her for over a century.

Kate brings serious credentials to this story. She holds a Ph.D. in English Literature, spent years as a college professor, and has won awards for her screenwriting in over two dozen festivals. She’s also an Irish storyteller, fiddler, and co-founder of the Irish Heritage Theater in Philadelphia — which tells you something about the kind of woman who is drawn to telling Victoria Woodhull’s story.

You can learn more about Kate Danaher at https://www.katedanaher.com/ and the book is easily found on Amazon.

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