The Vixens: A Biography of Victoria and Tennessee Claflin

The Vixens is a captivating biography of the free-willed Claflin sisters, Victoria and her younger sister, Tennessee. Born into poverty in the mid-1800s, these remarkable women lived ragamuffin childhoods in a traveling medicine show but became grandes dames by old age. In between they founded a brokerage firm with the help of Commodore Vanderbilt, made a success of America's first feminist newspaper, and embraced a variety of causes including spiritualism and free love. Then with the same boldness that characterized their entire lives, they moved abroad and retired as English aristocrats.