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(1819-1910) Author, social reformer, writer. Julia Ward Howe wrote and lectured in behalf of women’s suffrage, Negro emancipation, and other causes, as well as helping to found a world peace organization. She wrote “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” her most famous work, which was published in 1862. She lived in Manhattan, New York.

Full Name

Julia Ward Howe

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


Unknown

RESIDENCE

Howe lived in Manhattan, New York.

1819

BIRTH

Julia Ward was born in New York City, New York, in 1819.

1843

OTHER

Julia Ward married Samuel Gridley Howe in 1843.

1854

LITWORK

Passion-Flowers
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields.

Collection of poetry.

1857

LITWORK

Words For The Hour
Boston: Ticknor and Fields.

Collection of poetry.

1857

LITWORK

The World's Own


Play.

1862

LITWORK

The Battle Hymn of the Republic
Atlantic Monthly.

Poem; Howe's most famous work.

1866

LITWORK

Later Lyrics
Boston: J. E. Tilton & Company.

Collection of poetry.

1874

LITWORK

Sex And Education


Nonfiction.

1881

LITWORK

Modern Society


Nonfiction.

1891

LITWORK

Woman's Work In America
New York: N. Holt and Co.

1898

LITWORK

From Sunset Ridge; Poems Old And New
Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin & Co.

Collection of poetry.

1899

LITWORK

Reminiscences: 1819-1899
Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

1910

DEATH

Julia Ward Howe died at her home in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island, in 1910.

1910

INTERMENT

Julia Ward Howe is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

1910

LITWORK

At Sunset
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co.

Collection of poetry.

1913

LITWORK

Julia Ward Howe And the Woman Suffrage Movement: A Selection From Her Speeches And Essays
Boston: D. Estes.

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