Victoria Claflin was born in Homer, Ohio. Her family performed fortune-telling and medicine shows. She performed a spiritualist act with her sister. She was married to Dr. Canning Woodhull from 1853 to 1864. She moved to New York with her sister, Tennessee and they became stockbrokers. They got involved with a group called Pantarchy, which advocated free love, equal rights, and legal prostitution. Victoria won support from the women's suffrage movement and was the first woman nominated for the presidency of the United States. Her publications include Woodhull and Claflin’s Weekly (1870-6), Stirpiculture, or the Scientific Propagation of the Human Race (1888), and The Human Body the Temple of God (1890). She died in 1927.