In “Other Powers,” Barbara Goldsmith’s sensationalized Victoria Woodhull biography, she misidentified Miss Annie Wood, a once well-known blonde actress, as Madame Annie Wood of the “fashionable demi-monde.” Goldsmith theorized that Josie Mansfield and her friend Madame Annie Wood relayed stock market tips obtained from Annie’s clients to Victoria. Without citing her source, Goldsmith made the unprecedented claim that Victoria impressed Madame Wood by forcing a judge to pay full fee for services rendered at
That story doesn’t fit with Miss Annie Wood’s letter to the editor of the New York World which appears in part below (emphasis added):
SIR: While travelling I have noticed papers have used my name in a slurring manner as “the woman who introduced Miss Mansfield to Mr. Fisk.” That I was now under the assumed name of Annie Sutton, Mr. J. Sutton, of our company, being my husband, and Annie Wood not my name, but used only at times on the stage. . . . I have no reason to be ashamed of my own name, though I do deeply regret it should be brought before the public in connection with a wicked woman like Mrs. M., whom I have not spoken to for a numb
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