Short Skirts and Free Love... What Hillary Could Learn From the First Woman to Run for President ; While Mrs Clinton Is Battling to Be the First Woman to Take a Seat As Us President Into the White House, Tom Morris Remembers the First Female to Stand for the Presidency and How She Ended Her Life in a Small Gloucestershire Village

Western Daily Press › March 28, 2008

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While Mrs Clinton is battling to be the first woman to take a seat as US President into the White House, Tom Morris remembers the first female to stand for the presidency and how she ended her life in a small Gloucestershire village

When, in 1927, Victoria Woodhull-Martin died in her sleep at an ancestral home in a leafy West village she left behind a fascinating legacy.

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Short Skirts and Free Love... What Hillary Could Learn From the First Woman to Run for President ; While Mrs Clinton Is Battling to Be the First Woman to Take a Seat As Us President Into the White House, Tom Morris Remembers the First Female to Stand for the Presidency and How She Ended Her Life in a Small Gloucestershire Village

The American's impact on both sides of the Atlantic is recognised by a plaque at Tewkesbury Abbey, and to say she had a chequered past would be an understatement.

Villagers in Bredon's Norton, near Tewkesbury, knew her as the Lady of the Manor but Mr...

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