Although they had nation aspirations, the group was limited to New York and held meetings at the Ritz Carlton Hotel and Delmonico's.
Its cast of characters includes Cornelius Vanderbilt, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, restaurateur Charlie Delmonico, and Henry Ward Beecher, with whom Woodhull is linked in a fictional romance that leads to the minister being tried for alienation of affections.
Delmonico is divorced from the former Barbara Vanaman of Williamstown, New Jersey.