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  Julia Ward Howe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born Julia Ward in New York City, she was the third of six children born to Samuel Ward (1786 - 1839) and Julia Rush Cutler.
Liutenant Colonel Samuel Ward was a son of Samuel Ward, a colonial Governor of Rhode Island and later as a delegate to the Continental Congress, and his wife Anna Ray.
Julia Ward Howe is buried in the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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 Encyclopedia: Julia Ward Howe
Julia Ward Howe (19th century photograph) This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright.
Born Julia Ward in New York City, she was the third of six children of a well-to-do banker.
Julia Ward Howe's Battle Hymn of the Republic was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862 and quickly became one of the most popular songs for the Union during the American Civil War.
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 Open Collections Program: Women Working: Julia Ward Howe
Julia Ward Howe, a writer, lecturer, and women's rights activist, was born in 1819 in New York City to Samuel Ward, Jr., a wealthy Wall Street stockbroker, and Julia Rush, a poet.
Howe's leadership in the women's club movement extended to both local and national organizations, and she founded the New England Women's Club in 1868 and served as president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs (1890) and the Association for the Advancement of Women (founded, 1873).
Julia Ward Howe's papers and the papers of the Howe Family are held in the Houghton Library, Harvard College Library and in the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute.
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 Story of Julia Ward Howe,Life of Julia Ward Howe,Biography of Julia Ward Howe
Howe, yet they all fail in their individual capacity or even in their collective might to define the remarkable woman as she was.
Miss Julia Ward Howe was born in New York City on May 27, 1819 as the third of the six children to Julia Rush Cutler and Samuel Ward, a wealthy banker.
Julia began her writing career at the age of 20 when she wrote a literary criticism which was published anonymously in the Literary and Theological Review and the New York Review.
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 Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, Vol. I.
Julia recalled Newport in 1832 as "a forsaken, mildewed place, a sort of intensified Salem, with houses of rich design, no longer richly inhabited." She was to watch through many years the growth of what was always one of the cities of her heart.
Julia's girlhood evenings were mostly spent at home, with books, needlework, and music, varied by an occasional lecture or concert, or a visit to some one of the uncle's houses in the street, which ought, one would think, to have been called "Ward Street," since at this time almost the whole family connection lived there.
Julia Ward had come a long way from old Ascension Church, where Peter Stuyvesant, in a full brown wig, carried round the plate, and the Reverend Manton (afterwards Bishop) Eastburn preached sermons "remarked for their good English"; and where communicants were not expected to go to balls or theatres.
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 Julia Ward Howe
Julia Ward Howe, born in New York City, was the daughter of a Wall Street broker and banker and of a mother who was a poet.
Julia Ward Howe became a transformer of culture: She was the coleader, with Lucy Stone, of the American Woman Suffrage Association; served as president of the American Association for Women; and helped to found the General Federation of Women's Clubs.
Julia Ward Howe was a Unitarian who sometimes preached from the pulpit of Boston’s esteemed Church of the Disciples, of which she was a member.
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 Julia Ward Howe
Julia was educated by governesses in a private environment permeated by property ownership, wealth and privilege.
Some archivists contend that Samuel Howe was a member of the populace targeted by temperance reformers and that his abuse of alcohol contributed to physical abuse of Julia.
Howe failed in her attempt to get formal recognition of a National Mother's Day of Peace but her call of a unity of reformers and suffrage proponents was soon to come to fruition.
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 Julia Ward Howe
Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819-October 17, 1910), little known today except as author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," was famous in her lifetime as poet, essayist, lecturer, reformer and biographer.
Julia Ward was born in New York City, third of the six children of Julia Rush Cutler and Samuel Ward, a wealthy banker.
Julia's biography of her husband, Memoir of Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, 1876, is full of praise for his character and achievements.
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 Julia ward howe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 Literary Encyclopedia: Julia Ward Howe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Julia Cutler Ward, poet and public speaker, was born in New York City into a prosperous and distinguished family.
Julia's father exercised firm control over his children's lives, and Julia early on showed signs of resistance to patriarchal authority and thirst for freedom which were to become the leitmotivs of her adult life and career.
But the verses for which Julia Ward Howe is chiefly remembered are those she wrote one night, in a burst of inspiration, for the tune “John Brown's Body” and published under the title “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862.
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 Julia Ward Howe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Born Julia Ward in New York City, she was the third of six children of a well-to-do bank er.
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Howe, Julia Ward - Kalliope Portrætter, biografi og samtid.
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 Julia Ward Howe... Original Mother's Day devoted to work, friendship and peace
Julia Ward Howe devised the effort to launch an official Mother's Day as an endeavor for peace, encouraging mothers to rally politically, socially and economically.
Julia Ward Howe is today best known as the writer of the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
She was married to Samuel Gridley Howe, educator of the blind, who was also active in abolitionism and other reforms.
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 Julia Ward Howe
Howe, Julia Ward, 1819–1910, American author and social reformer, b.
Howe wrote and lectured in behalf of woman suffrage, African-American emancipation, and other causes, and helped found a world peace organization.
Julia Ward Howe - Julia Ward Howe social reformer, writer Born: 5/27/1819 Birthplace: New York, N.Y. Julia Ward was...
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 Julia Ward Howe: Poems   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
With the exception of her one great poem, "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," Julia Ward Howe will be remembered rather as a constructive reformer than as a poet.
Howe, as she afterward related, was greatly stirred by the incident, but impressed by the inadequacy of the words to so fine a martial air.
Julia Ward Howe: Bibliography - A bibliography of the works of Julia Ward Howe; includes a list of critical and biographical resources.
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 Julia Ward Howe
Her father, Samuel Ward, was a banker; her mother, Julia Rush Cutler (1796-1824), a poet of some ability.
The results of her study of German philosophy were seen in philosophical essays; in lectures on "Doubt and Belief", "The Duality of Character", etc., delivered in 1860-61 in her home in Boston, and later in Washington; and in addresses before the Boston Radical Club and the Concord school of philosophy.
Howe was at the front in 1861, and published (February 1862) in the Atlantic Monthly, to which she frequently contributed.
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 About Julia Ward Howe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Julia Ward was born on May 27, 1819, in New York City to Samuel Ward, a well-to-do banker, and his wife Julia Cutler Ward.
Ward died of tuberculosis when Julia was five, and the children were raised by an aunt, Eliza Cutler.
The marriage was not a happy one, and although Julia considered divorce, she ultimately chose to stay the course.
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 Howe, Julia Ward on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
HOWE, JULIA WARD [Howe, Julia Ward] 1819-1910, American author and social reformer, b.
The philosophy of halfness and the philosophy of duality: Julia Ward Howe and Ednah Dow Cheney.
Margaret Fuller on the early poetry of Julia Ward Howe: an uncollected letter.
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 Battle Hymn of the Republic: Julia Ward Howe
Julia Ward Howe, today, we know her by her poem, which are the lyrics for The Battle Hymn Of The Republic.
Julia Ward was born in New York City in 1819.
Julia stayed with him because he threatened to keep her children from her if she divorced him.
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 AllRefer.com - Julia Ward Howe (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
She assisted her husband, Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, in his philanthropic projects and in editing the Boston Commonwealth, an abolitionist paper.
Howe wrote and lectured in behalf of woman suffrage, fl emancipation, and other causes, and helped found a world peace organization.
Besides writing several volumes of poetry, she was the author of Sex and Education (1874), Modern Society (1881), and a biography of Margaret Fuller (1883).
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 Newport Notables
On visit to Boston in 1841, meets future husband Samuel G. Howe, noted philanthropist, educator, founder of the Perkins Institute for the Blind.
In the early 1850s Julia establishes summer residence in South Portsmouth at Lawton's Valley.
Julia is one of its first vice presidents.
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 Samuel Gridley and Julia Howe House -- NRHP Travel Itinerary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Howe House was home to humanitarians and abolitionists Julia Ward Howe and Samuel Gridley Howe (1801-1876) during an extremely exciting period in their lives, 1863-1866.
The house, a four-story brick row house with Georgian elements, is one of three adjoining “Swan Houses” built by a wealthy widow for her daughters.
Julia Ward Howe is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge.
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 Today in History: January 28
On January 28, 1908, author and activist Julia Ward Howe, famous for her composition, "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," became the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Howe's first-hand experience of a November 18, 1861 Confederate attack on Union troops in Virginia inspired "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." She wrote the poem to the tune of "John Brown's Body," a marching song popular among Union soldiers.
Howe was the first woman elected to both the Institute, in 1907, and the Academy.
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 National Women's Hall of Fame - Women of the Hall
Julia Ward Howe, author of The Battle Hymn of the Republic, was a pioneer for women in literature and other areas.
Howe's work is now the national anthem for freedom.
She fought not only for the right to vote, but also struggled to liberate women from the confinement of the traditional "womanís place" in stifling marriages like her own, where none of her ideas were valued or accepted.
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 Julia Ward Howe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Julia Ward Howe wrote these lyrics to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" one night after returning home from a visit with a family friend to Union soldiers in a Washington campground.
Howe, why do you not write some good words for that stirring music?" That night, Julia Howe was inspired; she recalled how the verses were weaving themselves together as she drifted off to sleep.
Julia Ward Howe died in Newport, R.I., on October 17, 1910.
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 Poet: Julia Ward Howe - All poems of Julia Ward Howe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Julia Ward Howe - The Early Years - Beyond the Battle Hymn of the...
1 of 7: Julia Ward and Samuel Gridley Howe: Though known mostly for her authorship of a patriotic American song, Julia Ward Howe was active in many causes,...
Julia Ward Howe and the woman suffrage movement: a selection from her speeches and...
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 JULIA WARD HOWE - LoveToKnow Article on JULIA WARD HOWE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Her father, Samuel Ward, was a banker; her mother, Julia Rush tCutlcrj (1796-1824), a poet of some ability.
The results of her study of German philosophy were seen in philosophical essays; in lectuFes on Doubt and Belief, The Duality of Character, andc., delivered in 1860-1861 in her home in Boston, and later in ~\Tashington; and in addresses before the Boston Radical Clul and the Concord school of philosophy.
Her children were: Julia Romana Anagnos (1844-1886), who, like her mother, wrote verse and studied philosophy, and who taught in the Perkins Institution, in the charge of which her husband, Michael Anagnos (1837-1906), whose family name had been Anagnostopoulos, succeeded her father; Henry Marion.
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 Julia Ward Howe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Howe, Julia Ward (1819-1910), American author and reformer, born in New York City.
She was associated with her husband, Samuel Gridley Howe, in his humanitarian work and in editing and contributing to the Boston Commonwealth, an antislavery paper.
After the war, Howe was active in the women's rights movement as a founder of both the New England Woman's Club and the Association for the Advancement of Women.
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