What is Julia Ward Howe?
{{Infobox writer|image=Julia Ward Howe 2.png|name=Julia Ward Howe|occupation=[[Activist]], [[abolitionist]], [[poet]]|birth_date=27 May 1819|death_date={{death date and age |1910|10|17 |1819|05|27 |df=yes}}|birth_place=[[New York City|New York, New York]]}} '''Julia Ward Howe''' (27 May 1819 – 17 October 1910) was an [[Americans|American]] [[activism|social activist]], abolitionist and [[poet]]. She wrote several books and works of poetry. Her first book was an [[anonymous work]] of [[poetry]] that came out in 1854. It was titled ''Passion-Flowers''.<ref name=Williams1>Gary Williams, ''Hungry Heart: The Literary Emergence of Julia Ward Howe (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999), p. 1</ref> In November 1861 she wrote the [[song]] ''[[The Battle Hymn of the Republic]]''.<ref name=Nofi193>Albert A. Nofi, ''The Civil War Treasury'' (New York: Castle Books, 2006), p. 193</ref> Howe also focused on [[women's suffrage]] and [[pacifism]]. Howe was born in [[New York (state)|New York]]. She died from [[pneumonia]] at age ninety-one in [[Rhode Island]].<ref>''Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary'', Volume 1, eds. Edward T. James; Janet Wilson James; Paul S. Boyer, (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971), p. 229</ref> == References == {{reflist}} <br> {{us-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Howe, Julia Ward}} [[Category:19th-century American poets]] [[Category:Writers from New York City]] [[Category:1819 births]] [[Category:1910 deaths]]