Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910,) née Ward, was an American feminist, reformer, and writer best known for her “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” She was the wife of physician and abolitionist Gridley Howe and the mother of writer Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards.
Born a wealthy banker’s daughter in New York, Howe became a prominent suffragist and abolitionist and founded the New England Woman Suffrage Association (1868) and the New England Women’s Club (1868.)
Howe published several volumes of poetry, including Passion Flowers (1854) and Words for the Hour (1857) and 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, Howe became the first woman to be elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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The strokes of the pen need deliberation, as much as those of the sword need swiftness.
—Julia Ward Howe
Topics: Writing, Authors & Writing, Writers
When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings.
—Julia Ward Howe
Topics: Woman
Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.
—Julia Ward Howe
Topics: Honor
Every life has its actual blanks which the ideal must fill up, or which else remain bare and profitless forever.
—Julia Ward Howe
Topics: Ideals
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.
—Julia Ward Howe
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