Literary Birthday – 27 May – Julia Ward Howe

Julia Ward Howe was born on 27 May 1819 and died on 17 October 1910.

Julia Ward Howe Quotes

1. Any religion which sacrifices women to the brutality of men is no religion.
2. I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends.
3. It is always legitimate to wish to rise above one’s self, never above others.
4. Familiarity so dulls the edge of perception as to make us least acquainted with things forming part of our daily life.
5. I never could be good when I was not happy.

Julia Ward Howe was an American poet and author. She was also an advocate for abolitionism and a social activist for women’s suffrage. She is best known for writing The Battle Hymn of the Republic. Howe continued to write throughout her life, publishing travel books, poetry, collections of essays, and biographies. In 1872, she became the editor of Woman’s Journal, a widely-read suffragist magazine founded in 1870 by Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell. She contributed to it for twenty years. In 1908, at age 88, Howe became the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Source for image: Author unknown, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JuliaWardHowe_2_(cropped).jpg

by Amanda Patterson

Please click here for our Literary Birthday Calendar

{6}