Biography: Reminiscences, 1819-1899

by Julia Ward Howe

Subject

Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography
Feminists -- United States -- Biography
Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. Birth, Parentage, Childhood 1
II. Literary New York 21
III. New York Society 29
IV. Home Life: My Father 43
V. My Studies 56
VI. Samuel Ward and the Astors 64
VII. Marriage: Tour in Europe 81
VIII. First Years in Boston 144
IX. Second Visit to Europe 188
X. A Chapter about Myself 205
XI. Anti-Slavery Attitude: Literary Work: Trip to Cuba 218
XII. The Church of the Disciples: in War Time 244
XIII. The Boston Radical Club: Dr. F. H. Hedge 281
XIV. Men and Movements in the Sixties 304
XV. A Woman's Peace Crusade 327
XVI. Visits to Santo Domingo 345
XVII. The Woman Suffrage Movement 372
XVIII. Certain Clubs 400
XIX. Another European Trip 410
XX. Friends and Worthies: Social Successes

408 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 19, 2019

About the author

American writer and feminist Julia Ward Howe, (1819 -1910) was active in the abolitionist cause and the suffrage movement of women, wrote " Battle Hymn of the Republic " (1862) and edited Woman's Journal from 1870 to 1890.

Julia Ward married Samuel Gridley Howe, a physician and reformer who had founded the Perkins School for the Blind.

After her death, three of her daughters collaborated on a biography published in 1916. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.