American writer and feminist Julia Ward Howe, (1819 -1910) was active in the abolitionist cause and the suffrage movement of women, wrote "Battle Hymn of the Republic" (1862) and edited Woman's Journal from 1870 to 1890.
Julia Ward married Samuel Gridley Howe, a physician and reformer who had founded the Perkins School for the Blind.
After her death, three of her daughters collaborated on a biography published in 1916. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.