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James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe . (search)
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe. Mrs. Lucia Gilbert Calhoun.
Fourteen years ago there came from the famous press of Ticknor & Company, a small volume of Poems, whose first page, beside the imprint of the publishers, bore only the simple title-line
Passion Flowers.
An anonymous book of poetry does not commend itself to the reading mob, and not many copies were sold.
But the critics read it, and the scholars, and that small public which had heard that it was Mrs. Howe's book, and desired to knMrs. Howe's book, and desired to know what sort of verses a woman of society, a wit, a housewife, and a mother of children would write.
It was a book that invited, and received, and defied criticism; a book powerful, pungent, and unripe.
Its personalism was terrible.
In every page it said, Lo, this thing that God has made and called by my name!
What is it?
Why is it?
Behold its passions and temptations; its triumphs and its agonies; its fervors and its doubts; its love and its scorn; its disappointment and its acquiescence