Looking back from the close of the century, Julia Ward Howe recalls her New York childhood as a banker’s daughter, the literary and social world of the city, her studies, her brother Sam and the Astors, and her marriage to the reformer Samuel Gridley Howe. Later chapters take in Boston, abolition, the Civil War, the writing of her famous hymn, and her work for peace and women’s suffrage.
A first-hand record of a remarkable American life, from the author of the Battle Hymn of the Republic. Download the free EPUB.