Three daughters write the life of their mother, from her girlhood in a wealthy New York family and her marriage to the reformer Samuel Gridley Howe to the Civil War years and the long public career that followed. Her own diaries and letters carry the story through women’s clubs, the peace crusade, suffrage and travels in Greece.
The biography that won the first Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1917, an intimate portrait of a remarkable American woman. Download the free EPUB.