Julia Ward Howe
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Image:JuliaWardHowe.jpeg Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 – October 17, 1910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet.
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Family
Born Julia Ward in New York City, she was the third 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 Green. Her maternal grandparents were Benjamin Clarke and Sarah Mitchell Cutler.
Liutenant Colonel Samuel Ward was a son of Samuel Ward, a colonial Governor of Rhode Island and later as a delegate to the Continental Congress, and his wife Anna Ray. Phoebe Green was a daughter of William Greene, Governor of Rhode Island and his wife Catharine Ray.
Marriage and later life
In 1843 she married a fellow abolitionist, physician Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe who founded the Perkins Institute for the Blind. The couple made their home in Boston, had six children, and were active in the Free Soil Party.
Howe's Battle Hymn of the Republic was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862 and quickly became one of the most popular songs for the Union during the American Civil War.
After the war she focused her activities on the causes of Pacifism and women's suffrage. She was a member of the Unitarian church.
In 1870 she was the first to proclaim Mother's Day, with her Mother's Day Proclamation.
On January 28, 1908 Julia Ward Howe became the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Julia Ward Howe is buried in the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Publications
- The Hermaphrodite. Incomplete, but probably composed between 1846 and 1847. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.
- Passionflowers. Poetry of Julia Ward Howe. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1854.
- Word 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 Mufflin & 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.
- Representative women of New England. Boston: New England Historical Pub. Co., 1904.
- Julia Ward Howe and the woman suffrage movement: a selection from her speeches and essays. Boston. D. Estes, 1913.
- Richards, Laura Elizabeth. Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916. 2v.
External links
- 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 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