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Julia Ward Howe 1819–1910, American author and social reformer, b. New York City. She assisted her husband, Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, in his philanthropic projects and in editing the Boston Commonwealth, an abolitionist paper. Mrs. Howe wrote and lectured in behalf of woman suffrage, black emancipation, and other causes, and helped found a world peace organization. In Nov., 1861, after watching Union troops march into battle, she wrote "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," her most famous work. It was published in the Atlantic Monthly in Feb., 1862. The American Academy of Arts and Letters elected her as its first woman member. 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).
See her Reminiscences, 1819–1899 (1899); biography by her daughters Laura E. Richards and Maud Howe Elliott (1915, repr. 1970); L. H. Tharp, Three Saints and a Sinner (1956).
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