Julia Ward Howe remembered years later that she had awakened around dawn in her room in Willard’s Hotel with the lyrics floating in her head. It was November 1861, and she was on her first trip ...

Julia Ward Howe is remembered for having composed the lyrics to the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," which many Americans, particularly churchgoing ones, can recite by memory.

"Get up, vote, do something" implores suffragist Julia Ward Howe in new play presented by 4th Wall Stage Company at Worcester Historical Museum.

Julia Ward Howe, an abolitionist and women's rights activist, was born in New York in 1819 but had deep family roots in Rhode Island. A prolific writer and speaker, Howe championed various social ...

On Aug. 25-27, "Representation, and How to Get It," a solo play about activist Julia Ward Howe, will be staged by Great Barrington Public Theater at The Mount.

For a holiday today so associated with celebration, it is a stark lesson that Mother’s Day began with pain. In Boston in the early 1870s, Julia Ward Howe — the author of a poem called “The ...

Object Details author Showalter, Elaine Subject Howe, Julia Ward 1819-1910 Contents The princess in the castle -- The knight-errant -- The hero and the belle -- Marriage and maternity -- Rome again, ...