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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 836 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HOWE ,.-JULIA See also:

WARD-HOWE, See also:EARL to See also:war. She wrote The See also:World's Own (unsuccessfully played at See also:Wallack's, New See also:York, in 1855, published 1857), and in 1858, for See also:Edwin See also:Booth, See also:Hippolytus, never acted or published. Her lyric See also:poetry, thanks to her temperament, and possibly to her musical training, was her highest See also:literary See also:form: she published See also:Passion See also:Flowers (anonymously, 1854), Wards for the See also:Hour (1856), Later Lyrics (1866), and From Sunset See also:Ridge : Poems Old and New (1898); her most popular poem is The See also:Battle Hymn of the See also:Republic, written to the old folk-tune associated with the See also:song of " See also:John See also:Brown's See also:Body," when Mrs Howe was at the front in 1861, and published (Feb. 1862) in the See also:Atlantic Monthly, to which she frequently contributed. She edited See also:Sex and See also:Education (1874), an See also:answer to Sex in Education (1873) by See also:Edward See also:Hammond See also:Clarke (1820—1877); and wrote several books of travel, See also:Modern Society (188o) and Is Polite Society Polite? (1895), collections of addresses, each taking its See also:title from a lecture criticizing the shallowness and falseness of society, the See also:power of See also:money, &c., A Memoir of Dr See also:Samuel G. Howe (1876), See also:Life of See also:Margaret See also:Fuller (1883), in the " Famous See also:Women " See also:series. Sketches of Representative Women of New See also:England (19o5) and her own Reminiscences (See also:Boston, 1899). Her See also:children were: Julia See also:Romana Anagnos (1844–1886), who, like her See also:mother, wrote See also:verse and studied See also:philosophy, and who taught in the See also:Perkins Institution, in the See also:charge of which her See also:husband, See also:Michael Anagnos (1837–1906), whose See also:family name had been Anagnostopoulos; succeeded her See also:father; See also:Henry See also:Marion Howe (b. 1848), the eminent metallurgist, and See also:professor in See also:Columbia University; Laura See also:Elizabeth See also:Richards (b. r85o), and Maud Howe See also:Elliott (b. 1855), wife of John Elliott, the painter of a See also:fine See also:ceiling in the Boston library,—both these daughters being contributors to literature. Mrs Howe died on the r7th of See also:October 191o.

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