JULIA WARD HOWE - AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED 4/1892 - HFSID 297547
Price: $1,200.00
JULIA WARD HOWE
She writes "High Thought makes High Life" and signs a 4¾x2¾
card.
Autograph Quotation signed: "High Thought/makes High Life./Julia Ward
Howe/April 1892", 4¾x2¾ card. Howe (1819-1910, born in New
York City), a social reformer and poet, is best known for writing the poem
The Battle Hymn of the Republic, which she was inspired to write
after visiting army camps in Washington, D.C. during the Civil War. Howe's poem,
first published in the February 1862 issue of The Atlantic Monthly, was
later set to music to the tune of the popular antislavery song John Brown's
Body and became the unofficial song of the Union Army. Howe later
turned her fervor against slavery into a crusade for women's rights. She
was a co-founder (1868) and first President of the New England Woman's
Suffrage Association, co-led (with Lucy Stone) the American Woman Suffrage
Association (1869) and founded the Women's International Peace
Association (1871). In 1870, Howe assisted Stone and her husband, Henry
Blackwell, to establish the Woman's Journal, and served as an editor and
writer for the publication for 20 years. Howe, who also wrote poems for other
women's journals and founded the Boston Authors Club, was the first woman
elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1908). Adhesive residue
on verso (no show through). Light surface impressions. Slightly soiled ta top.
Otherwise, fine condition.
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