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Julia Ward Howe | |
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Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910)
Though New York-born, Howe
spent much of her life in Boston.
A dynamic
and outspoken
social reformer, she worked tirelessly
for women's suffrage, the abolition
of slavery, and world
peace, helping to
found several organizations in the process.
After
seeing some Union troops march off
to
the Civil War in 1861, she wrote "The
Battle Hymn of the Republic."
Her later works,
Sex and Education and Modern
Society,
were
well ahead of most people's thinking.
Howe was the first woman
to be elected to membership
in the American Academy
of Arts and Letters, and the founder of the Women's
Rest Tour
Association.
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