A review by jpalfreyman
The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe: A Biography by Elaine Showalter

3.0

Howe was born the same year as Walt Whitman, but their lives could not be more different. Whitman was allowed to roam, write and published as he pleased. Howe very rarely left the house before and after marriage and it was generally in company of a chaperone. Standards for women and men were probably at their widest gulf. The moments of freedom she had she used to fullest and much to her husband's dismay she published over and over again including the Battle Hymn Republic. Howe's downside included alienating everyone, especially fellow poets.