Julia Ward Howe
1819-1910 - American author and social reformer
- Born in New York, NY
- Married Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, who edited the Boston Commonwealth, an abolitionist paper
- Worked on her husband’s philanthropic projects
- She wrote and lectured on behalf of woman suffrage, black emancipation, and other causes, and helped found a world peace organization
- She wrote "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" in November 1861 after watching Union troops march into battle; this was her most famous work
- "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" was published in the Atlantic Monthly in February 1862
- The American Academy of Arts and Letters elected her as its first woman member
- Howe was the author of Modern Society (1881), and a biography of Margaret Fuller (1883); she also wrote several volumes of poetry
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