Modern Society

by Julia Ward Howe

Reproduction of the Modern Society by Julia Ward Howe

40 pages, Hardcover

First published October 29, 2009

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Duane Parker · Rating 3 out of 5]

Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) was an abolitionist, and a social activist focusing on women's suffrage. She was also a writer, mostly poetry, and in 1861, after visiting President Lincoln, and with the beginnings of the Civil War as a backdrop, she gets up from her hotel bed in the middle of the night and pens the words to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic".

In 1881 she wrote this small volume of essays focusing on "modern society" as she viewed it in the late 19th century, and the progress that women had made up until that point. She realized, correctly, that education was the key to further progress as the 20th century loomed ahead.