Mrs Satan - Biographical Information

I'm just going to add some biographical details for the "Mrs Satan" I mentioned earlier. As I don't have "that book" to hand, I'm taking the information from a very good guide to Bredon Hill, where the lady lived in later life :

"The beautiful manor (in Bredon's Norton) dates from 1585 and in the first two decades of the 21st century housed a very notable woman called Victoria Biddulph Martin, renowned for being the only woman to have run for president of the United States. She ran a newspaper in which she promoted her suffragette views, which must have taken some courage. Her surprisingly modern philosophies on free love, contraception, vegetarianism, magnetic healing, legalised prostitution, and easier devorce laws won her little popular appeal in the USA and eventually led to her being requested to leave the country, which is why she moved to England. She subsequently married John Biddulph Martin. Although she did lecture in Britain about her beliefs, she generally kept a lower profile while she was married to John and living in London. When he died in 1901 she moved to his country home, here on the slopes of Bredon Hill. It is alleged that she performed seances at the manor, an activity which had won her the interest of Cornelius Vanderbilt when she held them in the USA. Her esoteric spiritual beliefs did not in any way affect her ability to improve conditions for her fellow women - she was able to turn her political beliefs into tangible benefits. It is said that she lent out part of the manor so that young women could learn farming techniques, and it is also said that she turned her tithe barn into a village hall...."

From "Bredon Hill - A Guide to its Archaeology, History, Folklore and Villages" by Brian Hoggard and published by the Logaston Press