Poetry was her path to discovering her real vocation: to be a leader, a speaker and a campaigner, and to find her public voice. — writer Elaine Showalter, on Julia Ward Howe (photograph by J.E. Purdy, 1902, Library of Congress. image via Simon & Schuster)
A Woman to Know: Julia Ward Howe
A Woman to Know: Julia Ward Howe
A Woman to Know: Julia Ward Howe
Poetry was her path to discovering her real vocation: to be a leader, a speaker and a campaigner, and to find her public voice. — writer Elaine Showalter, on Julia Ward Howe (photograph by J.E. Purdy, 1902, Library of Congress. image via Simon & Schuster)