Maud Howe Elliott

Born in 1854, she was the daughter of Julia Ward Howe, the writer of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," and grew up in a household deeply connected to literature and reform. She became a writer herself, publishing novels and memoirs, and also worked as a lecturer and supporter of women’s suffrage.

She is best remembered for collaborating with her sisters Laura E. Richards and Florence Hall on The Life of Julia Ward Howe, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1917. That book remains an important account of her mother’s life and of the reform circles that shaped the family.

Her life also linked American and European cultural worlds: she married the artist John Elliott and spent many years moving in artistic and literary circles at home and abroad. She died in 1948, leaving behind work that connects family history, women’s public lives, and American literary culture.