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Julia Ward Howe
1819–1910
Best remembered for writing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," this energetic 19th-century poet also became a powerful public voice for abolition, peace, and women's rights. Her life joined literary fame with decades of reform work on some of the biggest causes of her era.
6 Audiobooks
Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli)
by Julia Ward Howe
From the Oak to the Olive: A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey
by Julia Ward Howe
Reminiscences, 1819-1899
by Julia Ward Howe
A Trip to Cuba
by Julia Ward Howe
Is Polite Society Polite? and Other Essays
by Julia Ward Howe
Modern Society
by Julia Ward Howe
About the author
Born in New York City on May 27, 1819, Julia Ward Howe grew up in a well-educated, prosperous family and became known as a writer, lecturer, and reformer. She is most famous for the words of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," written during the Civil War and quickly embraced across the United States.
Howe's career reached far beyond a single song. She published poetry, essays, travel writing, and biographies, and she became an active supporter of abolition and later of women's suffrage. She also issued an 1870 Mother's Day peace proclamation, showing how strongly she linked public life with moral action.
She died on October 17, 1910, in Newport, Rhode Island, after a long public career that made her one of the most recognizable women reformers of her time. Today she is remembered both for her stirring writing and for the seriousness she brought to social change.