The daughter of Julia Ward Howe and the reformer Samuel Gridley Howe recalls a Boston childhood among philanthropists and poets. She tells how her parents met, of Longfellow’s letter of congratulation, a wedding tour in Europe, family stories, early literary games with her sisters and Emerson’s reaction to a guest who had not yet written a word of his book.
A warm, anecdotal window onto nineteenth-century Boston’s literary and reform circles. Download the free EPUB.