Hungry heart : the literary emergence of Julia Ward Howe
Title:
Hungry heart : the literary emergence of Julia Ward Howe
JLCTITLE245:
Gary Williams.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©1999.
Physical Description:
xii, 273 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781558491571
9781558498020
Abstract:
Reexamines the early literary career of Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910), best remembered as the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-268) and index.
Personal Subject:
Contents:
"The thought of what I have undertaken weighs upon me": early writing and the decision to marry -- "Sumner ought to have been a woman": learning to live in a triangulated marriage -- "The internal fire that consumes": the 1840s, motherhood, and the necessity of writing -- "Between extremes distraught and rent": the second trip to Rome and the seeds of Passion-flowers -- "Ye shall listen now": Passion-flowers and the poetics of defiance -- "Down the bitter river she dropped": Words for the hour and The world's own.