JULIA WARD HOWE

'Julia Ward Howe' (May 271819 – October 171910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet most famous as the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."
Born 'Julia Ward' in New York City, she was the fourth of six children born to Samuel Ward (1786 – 1839) and Julia Rush Cutler. Her father was a well-to-do banker.
Her paternal grandparents were Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Ward (May 1 1756 – November 27 1839) of the Continental Army and Phoebe Greene. Her maternal grandparents were Benjamin Clarke and Sarah Mitchell Cutler.
Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Ward was a son of Samuel Ward, a colonial Governor of Rhode Island and later a delegate to the Continental Congress, and his wife Anna Ray. Phoebe Greene was a daughter of William Greene, Governor of Rhode Island and his wife Catharine Ray.
In 1843 she married a hero of the Greek revolution, physician Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe nicknamed Chev, who founded the Perkins Institute for the Blind. The couple made their home in South Boston, had six children (five of whom lived to adulthood), and were active in the Free Soil Party. She was a member of the Unitarian church.
Howe died of pneumonia at her home, Oak Glen, in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, at the age of 91. She is buried in the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Social activism

Honors

Media

Publications

Biographies

See also

External links

Social activism

Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic", set to William Steffe's already-existing music, was first published in the ''Atlantic Monthly'' in 1862 and quickly became one of the most popular songs of the Union during the American Civil War.
In 1870 Howe was the first to proclaim Mother's Day, with her Mother's Day Proclamation.
After the war Howe focused her activities on the causes of pacifism and women's suffrage. From 1872 to 1879, she assisted Lucy Stone and Henry Brown Blackwell in editing ''Woman's Journal.

Honors

On January 28, 1908 Howe became the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Howe was inducted posthumously into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.

Media

Publications

★ ''The Hermaphrodite.'' Incomplete, but probably composed between 1846 and 1847. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.

★ ''Passion-Flowers.'' Poetry of Julia Ward Howe. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1854.

★ ''Words for the Hour.'' Poetry of Julia Ward Howe. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1857.

★ ''From Sunset Ridge; Poems Old and New]].'' Poetry of Julia Ward Howe. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin & Co. 1898

★ ''Later Lyrics.'' Poetry of Julia Ward Howe. Boston: J. E. Tilton & company, 1866.

★ ''At Sunset.'' Poetry of Julia Ward Howe. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1910.

★ ''Sex and education: a reply to Dr. E.H. Clarke's "Sex in education."'' Boston: Roberts Bros., 1874.

★ ''Woman's work in America.'' New York: N. Holt and Co., 1891

★ ''Reminiscences: 1819–1899.'' Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1899.

★ ''Julia Ward Howe and the woman suffrage movement: a selection from her speeches and essays''. Boston. D. Estes, 1913.

Biographies

★ ''Representative women of New England''. Boston: New England Historical Pub. Co., 1904.

★ Richards, Laura Elizabeth. ''Julia Ward Howe, 1819–1910.'' Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916. 2 vol.

★ Clifford, Deborah Pickman. ''Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Biography of Julia Ward Howe''. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1978.

★ Wlliams, Gary. ''Hungry Heart: The Literary Emergence of Julia Ward Howe''. Amherst: U Massachusetts P, 1999.

See also

★ American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA)

External links

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★ Julia Ward Howe.org: A site devoted to the life and work of Julia Ward Howe.

★ Biography on Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography site

★ Julia Ward Howe at Harvard University

★ Julia Ward Howe/Women Writers

★ Julia Ward Howe at Anwers.com

★ National Women's Hall of Fame

★ Poetry at the University of Toronto

★ ''Mother's Day Proclamation'' (1870)

★ Julia Ward Howe at "The Making of America" project of Cornell University

★ Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) on harvard.edu

★ A profile of her father

★ A profile of her paternal grandfather

★ Ward's home for many years

★ Plaque on the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C. marking where Howe wrote the Hymn