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Howe, Julia Ward, née Ward 1819-1910
US feminist, reformer and writer
Born in New York, a wealthy banker's daughter, she became a prominent suffragette and abolitionist, and founded the New England Woman Suffrage Association (1868) and the New England Women's Club (1868). She published several volumes of poetry, including Passion Flowers (1854) and Words for the Hour (1857), as well as travel books and a play. She also wrote the 'Battle Hymn of the Republic' (1862, published in Atlantic Monthly), and edited Woman's Journal (1870-90). In 1908 she became the first woman to be elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She was married to Samuel Gridley Howe.
Bibliography: L Richards, Julia Ward Howe (1916)
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