Julia Ward Howe was born in 1819. Her father, Samuel Ward III, was one of New York City’s most successful bankers, and young Julia was educated by some of the country’s leading scholars. A beauty and ...

When first they met in 1841, Julia Ward was a red-haired Bond Street belle of Boston and Samuel Gridley Howe a chivalric handsome hero on a galloping black stallion. She was a studious heiress, a diva ...

For generations of Americans, “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” has been the hands-down favorite in patriotic songbooks, thanks to its emphatic cadence, dramatic lyrics and rousing chorus. The author ...

The "Battle Hymn of the Republic" was written in 1861 as a Union rallying song during the Civil War. The start of the song and its chorus are familiar: We can all hum the tune and fake our way through ...

Julia Ward Howe, an abolitionist and women's rights activist, was born in New York in 1819 but had deep family roots in Rhode Island. A prolific writer and speaker, Howe championed various social ...

THE CIVIL WARS OF JULIA WARD HOWE: A Biography. By Elaine Showalter. Simon and Schuster. 243 pages. $28. In 1865, on the occasion of her wedding anniversary, Julia Ward Howe wrote, “I have been ...

It appears to be a universal law that any discussion of Julia Ward Howe must begin with her waking from a dream in a Washington, D.C., hotel and composing the “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” in 1861 ...

THE years of mourning for my father and beloved brother being at an end, and the sister next to me being now of an age to make her début in society, I began with her a season of visiting, dancing, and ...

Howe was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1908. She wrote the lyrics to “Battle Hymn of the Republic” in 1861. Library of Congress Julia Ward Howe found the bonds of matrimony to ...

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The princess in the castle -- The knight-errant -- The hero and the belle -- Marriage and maternity -- Rome again, home again -- Passion-flowers -- The Secret Six -- The Civil War -- A new world -- ...