biography
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Howe, Julia Ward
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née Ward
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| female
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| lived:
| (1819–1910)
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| biography:
| Feminist, reformer, and writer, born in New York City, USA. 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, as well as travel books and a play. Best known for the ‘Battle Hymn of the Republic’ (published in Atlantic Monthly, 1862), she edited Woman's Journal (1870–90), and became the first woman to be elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1908). |
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