Julia Ward Howe, born 1819, was one of the earliest leaders of the women’s rights movement. A prolific writer and for twenty years editor of the suffragist Woman’s Journal, she authored the Battle Hymn of the Republic in 1862, not long before this c. 1865 photograph was taken. In 1884, graduate student Woodrow Wilson attended a Congress of Women in Baltimore where she spoke, declaring himself “scandalized” to hear “old maids” speaking in public.
Source photograph: Henry F. Warren, photographer; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
Date: c. 1865
Julia Ward Howe, born 1819, was one of the earliest leaders of the women’s rights movement. A prolific writer and for twenty years editor of the suffragist Woman’s Journal, she authored the Battle Hymn of the Republic in 1862, not long before this c. 1865 photograph was taken. In 1884, graduate student Woodrow Wilson attended a Congress of Women in Baltimore where she spoke, declaring himself “scandalized” to hear “old maids” speaking in public.
Source photograph: Henry F. Warren, photographer; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
Date: c. 1865