Julia Ward Howe

Julia Ward Howe (born May 17, 1819 in New York City , † October 17, 1910 in Portsmouth (Rhode Island) ) was an American poet, writer, abolitionist and advocate of women's rights .

Julia Ward Howe

Life

Julia Ward was the daughter of a wealthy banker in New York. In 1843 she married the doctor and civil rights activist Samuel Gridley Howe . The couple had six children. She published her first collections of poetry under the titles: "Passion flowers" (1854) and "Words for the hour" (1856). Two dramas followed: The world's own (1857) and Hippolytos (1858) as well as the prose work A trip to Cuba (1860).

During the Civil War , she wrote the text of the patriotic song The Battle Hymn of the Republic , which is still often played on official occasions in the USA to this day. Then she mainly pursued philosophical studies, wrote numerous metaphysical and theological essays. In 1866 her best poems were published under the title Later lyrics , including the famous poem The battle hymn of the Republic . Inspired by a trip to Crete in 1867, she wrote the book From the oak to the olive .

Howe was one of the most respected leaders of the women's rights movement in the United States. In 1870 she caused a stir with her Mothers' Day Proclamation , the proposal to introduce Mother's Day as a day of protest against the war.

Her later writings are: Emergencies and how to treat them (1871, 2nd ed. 1874); Modern society (1880); Margaret Fuller , marchesa Ossoli (1883).

In 1907 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

The Samuel Gridley and Julia Ward Howe House in Boston , where she lived with her husband from 1863 to 1866, has been a National Historic Landmark on the National Register of Historic Places since 1974 .

Secondary literature

Mary Hetherington Grant: Private Woman, Public Person: An Account of the Life of Julia Ward Howe from 1819 to 1868 (= Scholarship in Women's History 5). Carlson, New York 1994, ISBN 092601966X .
Elaine Showalter : The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe: A Biography. Simon & Schuster, New York 2016, ISBN 9781451645903 .

Web links

Commons : Julia Ward Howe - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

^ Members: Julia Ward Howe. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 4, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Howe, Julia Ward
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American poet and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	May 17, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH	New York City
DATE OF DEATH	October 17, 1910
Place of death	Portsmouth (Rhode Island)

[1] Members: Julia Ward Howe. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 4, 2019 .