The Coming Woman, by
Karen J. Hicks, is a novel based on the life of feminist Victoria Woodhull, the
first woman to run for U.S. President. Victoria Woodhull had the courage to
enter the political arena before women had won the battle to vote. This is a timely,
relevant, and compelling look at one of the women who paved the way for women
like Hillary Clinton to claim their place on the national stage and in our
history books.
Running for President wasn’t Victoria’s
only first as a woman. She was also the first to own a successful Wall Street
firm, the first to publish a successful national newspaper, and the first to
head the two-million-member Spiritualist Association.
She was the first woman to enter the
Senate Judiciary Committee chambers to petition for woman's suffrage, her
argument changing the entire focus of the suffragist movement by pointing out
that the 14th and 15th Amendments already gave women the vote.
In her campaign for the Presidency,
Victoria Woodhull boldly addressed many of the issues we still face today:
equal pay for equal work; freedom in love; corporate greed and political
corruption fueled by powerful lobbyists; and the increasing disparity between the
rich and the poor, to name only a few. Her outspoken and common-sense ideas may
shed a new perspective on the parallel conundrums of today’s world.
This bold, beautiful, and sexually
progressive woman dared to take on society and religion. To make an example of
the hypocrisy in what Mark Twain dubbed The Gilded Age, she exposed the
extramarital affairs of the most popular religious figure of the day (Henry
Ward Beecher). This led to her persecution and imprisonment and the longest,
most infamous trial of the 19th century. But it did not stop her fight for
equality.
Victoria’s epic story, set in the late
1800s, comes to life in a modern, fictional style, while staying true to the
actual words and views of the many well-known characters.
The Coming
Woman was
published by Sartoris Literary Group in
August 2014 and is available for sale on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Genre:
Women’s Fiction / Historical
Praise
for The Coming Woman:
"If you have a heart, if you have a
soul, Karen Hicks' The Coming Woman will make you fall in love with Victoria
Woodhull." - Kinky Friedman, author & Governor of the Heart of Texas
"What kind of confidence would it
take for a woman to buck the old boy's club of politics in 1872? More than 140
years pre-Hillary, there was Victoria Woodhull. This book takes you back with a
breathtaking, present-tense bird's eye view into a time when women's liberation
was primarily confined to one woman's very capable, independent mind. I
couldn't put it down." - Ruth Buzzi, Golden Globe Award winner and
Television Hall of Fame inductee
"The Coming Woman is a great read
and a long overdue biography written beautifully by Ms. Hicks. Victoria
Woodhull comes alive in each and every paragraph; a vital strength and spirit
in Woodhull propels her to run for president of the United States when women
weren’t even allowed to vote! What a woman, what a book! An inspiring must read
for every woman and any adventurous men! Thank you, Ms. Hicks for finally
telling her colorful story." - Jennifer Lee Pryor, author of Tarnished
Angel: A Memoir and President, Indigo, Inc.
About
the Author:
Karen J. Hicks is retired and lives in
Henderson, Nevada. She recently published her second novel, The Coming Woman, based on
the life of the infamous feminist Victoria C. Woodhull, who was the first woman
to run for U.S. President. Her first
book was a self-help book titled The Tao of a Uncluttered Life. Karen served as
in-house editor for author Steve Allen and has written several screenplays, as
well as poetry, short stories, and essays. To learn more, go to http://www.karenjhicks.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheComingWoman
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