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Elaine Showalter

By Elaine Showalter 7/30/01 12:00am

In England, ‘Madge’ Is Ultimate People’s Queen

British national pride, humbled by another loss at

Wimbledon, the collapse of the once-proud railroad system and near-catastrophic

breakdowns in the Tube, has rebounded. They may have lost the empire; they may

have lost tennis, rugby and cricket; they may even have lost Minnie Driver-but

by God, they have Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone Ritchie, in Read More

By Elaine Showalter 4/13/98 12:00am

Her Flaw as Suffrage Heroine? Preaching Too Much Freedom

Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull , by Barbara Goldsmith. Alfred A. Knopf, 531 pages, $30.

In February 1870, the banker and editor Victoria Claflin Woodhull had a spectral guest in her mansion in Murray Hill: The Greek orator Demosthenes came to her in a vision and told her Read More