Julia Ward Howe (Women’s Issues (Ready Reference series))
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Julia Ward Howe was born to wealth and privilege. That, coupled with her scholarly and literary background, caused some within the suffragist movement to label her an elitist. Yet Howe believed that the world of literature and ideas was one of the important realms women must be encouraged to enter. To this end, she was active in establishing women’s clubs and became president in 1871 of one of the first: the New England Women’s Club.
With her husband, Howe published an abolitionist newspaper, The Progressive. When “The Battle Hymn of the...
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