Howe, Julia Ward, 1819–1910, American author and social reformer, b. New York City. She assisted her husband, Samuel Gridley Howe Howe, Samuel Gridley, 1801–76, American reformer and philanthropist, b. Boston, Mass., grad. Brown, 1821, M.D. Harvard, 1824. He began his life-long service to others by going to Greece to aid in its war for independence and spent six years there.
..... Click the link for more information. , in his philanthropic projects and in editing the Boston Commonwealth, an abolitionist paper. Her first book of poetry was published in 1854. Mrs. Howe wrote and lectured in behalf of woman suffrage, African-American emancipation, and other causes, and helped found a world peace organization. In Nov., 1861, after watching Union troops march into battle, she wrote "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," her most famous work. It was published in the Atlantic Monthly in Feb., 1862. The American Academy of Arts and Letters elected her as its first woman member (1908). Besides writing several volumes of poetry, she was the author of Sex and Education (1874), Modern Society (1881), and a biography of Margaret Fuller Fuller, Margaret, 1810–50, American writer and lecturer, b. Cambridgeport (now part of Cambridge), Mass. She was one of the most influential personalities of her day in American literary circles.
..... Click the link for more information. (1883).
(born May 27, 1819, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Oct. 17, 1910, Newport, R.I.) U.S. abolitionist and social reformer. Born to a well-to-do family, she was educated privately. In 1843 she married educator Samuel Gridley Howe and took up residence in Boston. For a while she and her husband published the Commonwealth, an abolitionist newspaper. During a visit to an army camp near Washington, D.C., in 1861, she wrote a poem, “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” to be set to an old folk tune also used for “John Brown's Body.” Published in February 1862 in The Atlantic Monthly, it became the semiofficial Civil War song of the Union Army, and Howe became famous. After the war she involved herself in the woman suffrage movement, helping to found and serving as president of the New England Woman Suffrage Association (1868–77, 1893–1910). She also wrote travel books, biography, drama, verse, and children's songs and edited Woman's Journal (1870–90). In 1908 she became the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Howe, Julia Ward (1819–1910) writer, reformer, poet; born in New York City. She was educated privately, married Samuel Gridley Howe (1843), and lived mainly in Boston. A social reformer, she and her husband edited The Commonwealth, an antislavery paper in Boston, and she was a tireless worker, writer, and lecturer for social causes, particularly for the woman-suffrage international peace movements. She also wrote poetry, but is known today for only one poem, "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" (1861), which she wrote after visiting Union troops camped outside Washington, D.C.
..... Click the link for more information. , in his philanthropic projects and in editing the Boston Commonwealth, an abolitionist paper. Her first book of poetry was published in 1854. Mrs. Howe wrote and lectured in behalf of woman suffrage, African-American emancipation, and other causes, and helped found a world peace organization. In Nov., 1861, after watching Union troops march into battle, she wrote "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," her most famous work. It was published in the Atlantic Monthly in Feb., 1862. The American Academy of Arts and Letters elected her as its first woman member (1908). Besides writing several volumes of poetry, she was the author of Sex and Education (1874), Modern Society (1881), and a biography of Margaret Fuller Fuller, Margaret, 1810–50, American writer and lecturer, b. Cambridgeport (now part of Cambridge), Mass. She was one of the most influential personalities of her day in American literary circles.
..... Click the link for more information. (1883).
Bibliography
See her Reminiscences, 1819–1899 (1899); biographies by her daughters L. E. Richards and M. H. Elliott (1915, repr. 1970) and by V. H. Ziegler (2004); L. H. Tharp, Three Saints and a Sinner (1956).
Howe, Julia Ward
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Julia Ward Howe, 1902.
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Howe, Julia Ward (1819–1910) writer, reformer, poet; born in New York City. She was educated privately, married Samuel Gridley Howe (1843), and lived mainly in Boston. A social reformer, she and her husband edited The Commonwealth, an antislavery paper in Boston, and she was a tireless worker, writer, and lecturer for social causes, particularly for the woman-suffrage international peace movements. She also wrote poetry, but is known today for only one poem, "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" (1861), which she wrote after visiting Union troops camped outside Washington, D.C.
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