Tags: Musical.
Onward Victoria is a musical (1980) with a book and lyrics by Charlotte Anker and Irene Rosenberg and music by Keith Herrmann. Its subject is Victoria Woodhull the 19th-century woman who with her sister were the first women to operate a brokerage firm at which they became millionaires; and started a newspaper. Woodhull was a proponent for free love and activist for equality of the sexes. Its cast of characters includes Cornelius Vanderbilt Elizabeth Cady Stanton Susan B.