Voice Of Vashon

Episode ONE: It Is Time In 1927, Victoria Woodhull is on her deathbed in England, attended by her daughter Zulu. A lifelong spiritualist, Victoria wrestles with voices from her past as she tries to record her story for posterity, when a mysterious guide appears to help her.  

Episode Two: Step Right Up Young Victoria becomes her family’s breadwinner, ‘healing’ gullible customers with both histrionics and her father’s mysterious healing elixir. She meets and marries her first husband as the United States is on the brink of the Civil War and her second husband soon following its conclusion.  

Episode Three: Wall Street Aroused Victoria, sister Tennessee, and family arrive in NYC and befriend Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, who introduces them to the stock market and eventually funds their first major endeavor: the first woman-run stock brokerage in New York City.  

Episode Four: Onward and Upward Victoria and Tennessee hatch their wildest dream: Victoria’s candidacy for President of the United States.They then found one of the first woman-run newspapers in the U.S., The Woodhull & Claflin Weekly. Victoria travels to Washington DC and presents a memorial to Congress calling for equal suffrage for women.  

Episode Five: Free Love The battle between Victoria and the Beechers escalates. Thanks to an ill-fated choice by James Blood, Vicky and Tennie’s less than pristine pasts are revealed at a trial that dominates headlines in New York and beyond. Victoria’s past as an advocate of free love shocks her daughter Zulu.  

Episode Six: Mrs. Satan With their unsavory pasts revealed, Vanderbilt withdraws all financial support. Bankrupt, Victoria is dragged further down by the Beechers and turns to Theodore Tilton for support. She learns a secret about Beecher that she believes will help return her to the nation’s favor.