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Title: Reminiscences, 1819-1899

Author: Julia Ward Howe

Release Date: May 30, 2010 [EBook #32603]

Language: English

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REMINISCENCES. With many Portraits and other Illustrations. Crown 8vo,
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IS POLITE SOCIETY POLITE? AND OTHER ESSAYS. With a Portrait of Mrs.
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HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO. BOSTON AND NEW YORK.

[Illustration: Photograph of Julia Ward Howe; signature]

REMINISCENCES

1819-1899

BY JULIA WARD HOWE

WITH PORTRAITS AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS

[Decorative Illustration]

BOSTON AND NEW YORK

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

The Riverside Press, Cambridge

1899

COPYRIGHT, 1899, BY JULIA WARD HOWE

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. BIRTH, PARENTAGE, CHILDHOOD 1

II. LITERARY NEW YORK 21

III. NEW YORK SOCIETY 29

IV. HOME LIFE: MY FATHER 43

V. MY STUDIES 56

VI. SAMUEL WARD AND THE ASTORS 64

VII. MARRIAGE: TOUR IN EUROPE 81

VIII. FIRST YEARS IN BOSTON 144

IX. SECOND VISIT TO EUROPE 188

X. A CHAPTER ABOUT MYSELF 205

XI. ANTI-SLAVERY ATTITUDE: LITERARY
WORK: TRIP TO CUBA 218

XII. THE CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES: IN WAR TIME 244

XIII. THE BOSTON RADICAL CLUB: DR. F. H. HEDGE 281

XIV. MEN AND MOVEMENTS IN THE SIXTIES 304

XV. A WOMAN'S PEACE CRUSADE 327

XVI. VISITS TO SANTO DOMINGO