Editing Victoria Woodhull (section)

=== Stockbroker ===
[[File:Victoria-Woodhull-by-Mathew-Brady-c1870.png|thumb|right|[[Cabinet card]] of Woodhull by [[Mathew Brady]], 1866-73]]

Woodhull, with sister Tennessee (Tennie) Claflin, became the first female [[stockbroker]]s and in 1870 they opened a [[brokerage firm]] on [[Wall Street]]. Wall Street brokers were shocked. "Petticoats Among the Bovine and Ursine Animals," the ''New York Sun'' headlined.{{r|AtticJul2018}} Woodhull, Claflin & Company opened in 1870, with the assistance of the wealthy [[Cornelius Vanderbilt]], an admirer of Woodhull's skills as a medium; he is rumoured to have been Tennie's lover, and to have seriously considered marrying her.{{sfn|Johnson|1956|p=86}}  Woodhull made a fortune on the [[New York Stock Exchange]] by advising clients like Vanderbilt.  On one occasion she told him to sell his shares short for 150 cents per stock, which he duly followed, and earned millions on the deal.  Newspapers such as the ''[[New York Herald]]'' hailed Woodhull and Claflin as "the Queens of Finance" and "the Bewitching Brokers."{{Citation needed|date=February 2021}} Many contemporary men's journals (''e.g., The Days' Doings'') published sexualized images of the pair running their firm (although they did not participate in the day-to-day business of the firm), linking the concept of publicly minded, un-chaperoned women with ideas of "[[Religion and sexuality|sexual immorality]]" and [[prostitution]].{{sfn|Johnson|1956|p=87}}