Julia Ward Howe
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Standard Name: Howe, Julia Ward
Birth Name: Julia Ward
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, nineteenth-century American woman of letters, is chiefly remembered for having composed The Battle-Hymn of the Republic, and for her highly popular lecture tours. She also published poetry, travel writings, journalism including powerful support for women's suffrage and other kinds of rights, biography, and memoirs.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Mary Carpenter | In BostonMC
met Julia Ward Howe
and Lucretia Mott
. At Howard College
she was introduced by Frederick Douglass
, an old friend. Carpenter, J. Estlin. The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter. MacMillan and Co., 1881. 330-1, 323 |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Fuller | Through her Conversations MF
both benefited and formed friendships with a number of remarkable women: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
, Lydia Maria Child
, and Elizabeth Palmer Peabody
. Marshall, Megan. “Let Them Be Sea-Captains”. London Review of Books, No. 22, pp. 16 -18. 16 |
Friends, Associates | Anna Leonowens | In 1872 AL
met John Paine
, a wealthy older man with an interest in literature and a fan of her writing. Through Paine she was introduced to the elite of the New York arts... |
Literary responses | Margaret Fuller | The memoir of MF
's life which appeared (edited by Emerson
and others) the year after her death aroused interest from such people as George Eliot
and Henry Crabb Robinson
. Robinson observed that no... |
Occupation | Constance Smedley | This building (just vacated by the Imperial Service Club
was later exchanged for an even more spacious one at 138 Piccadilly. The London press in general warmly backed the new venture. Smedley, Constance, and Maxwell Armfield. Crusaders. Chatto & Windus, 1912. 67-9 and n |
politics | Emily Faithfull | The central concern of this society was educational and industrial reform; papers presented and discussed at the VDS meetings dealt not only with every aspect of women's work but also with sundry political, social and... |
politics | Maria Grey | Also known as the Women's Education Union, this organization was inaugurated at the |
Textual Production | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Though HBS
was internationally recognized for her written works she was not, unlike many other contemporary literary figures, a frequent lecturer. While Dickens
, Samuel Clemens
(who published as Mark Twain), Julia Ward Howe
... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | Irish Leaders and Martyrs, an interesting study in intellectual leadership, touches on the power of writing such as ballads, but does not discuss any women. American Women is an insightful study of historical and... |
Travel | Annie Besant | AB
attended the Chicago World's Fair (where other speakers included Susan B. Anthony
and Julia Ward Howe
) as Theosophist Henry Steele Olcott
's representative at the Chicago Parliament of Religions. Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1992. 264 |
Timeline
Late July 1889
The trial began in Liverpool of American Florence Maybrick
on a charge of poisoning her English husband with arsenic.
May 1923
Mother's Day, celebrated in the USA since 1908 on the second Sunday in May, was first observed in Europe on that date. It has co-existed for nearly a century with Mothering Sunday in Britain (the...
14 March 1939
John Steinbeck
caused a sensation with his novelThe Grapes of Wrath, about the hardships and exploitation visited on a family displaced from their Oklahoma farm to California by dust-bowl conditions.