Author: Showalter, Elaine,
Title: The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910): a biography.
Description: NY, Simon and Schuster, (2016). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. A beautiful studious New York heiress and aspiring poet when she married Bostonian Dr. Samuel Gridley, a hero of the Greek. war of independence against the Turks and an internationally acclaimed pioneer in the education of the blind. Dr. Howe did not approve of married women working outside the home and isolated Julia, opposed her literary ambitions, and wasted her inheritance. She defied him by contnuing to publish poems and plays while raising their six children. She secretly wrote a bold novel about a hermaphrodite undiscovered until after her death. During the Civil War she wrote the words to the Battle Hymn of the Republic. Author Showalter brings Julia Howe alive as a fascinating and powerful woman, witty, engaging and intrepid.

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