Elaine Showalter, Emeritus Professor of English at Princeton University, combines scholarly expertise in English and American literature with a passion for a wide range of cultural subjects. She has written ten books, most recently The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe: A Biography and A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx, which was awarded the Truman Capote Prize for Literary Criticism. Her writing has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, People, and Vogue.
"[A] finely rendered biography." * * * "The book gleams with calm
humor, but it is a serious work: a study of Howe's evolution into a
leader in the struggle for women's rights, viewed through the lens
of her marriage to the abolitionist and educator Samuel Gridley
Howe, an admirable man in many ways but a vain, jealous,
destructive and domineering husband." -- "The Wall Street
Journal"
This lively biography of the author of the Battle Hymn of the
Republic focuses on what her marriage expresses about the position
of women in the nineteenth century.-- "The New Yorker"
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"Elaine Showalter is that rarity: a scholar, feminist historian,
sharp-eyed cultural critic, with a knack for choosing subjects that
are both entertaining and brilliantly illuminating. The Civil Wars
of Julia Ward Howe is written with Showalter's usual witty,
sparkling, and erudite style. This zestfully narrated life of an
early, pioneering feminist, a tireless crusader for social reform
and women's rights, would make an ideal PBS series--indeed, all the
parts are in place for a felicitous adaptation of Showalter's gem
of a biography of a truly remarkable American woman."--Joyce Carol
Oates
"Famous as the author of Battle Hymn of the Republic, Julia Ward
Howe had a memorable career beyond this single momentous
achievement, as a poet, abolitionist, mother, lecturer, and
feminist. Interweaving her public life with Julia's troubled
marriage to the domineering Samuel Gridley Howe, this splendid
biography shows how Julia emerged from her private tribulations as
a stronger and more complete person."--James McPherson, author of
The War that Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters
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