Julia ward howe biography for kids

Howe as a young mother.

Julia Ward Howe's accomplishments did not end with writing her famous poem, "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" in 1862.

After the celebrated poem was published in The Atlantic Monthly, Julia became a celebrity and was often asked to speak publicly. Devoted to the causes of women's suffrage, peace and equity, she used her celebrity to promote these causes.

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Julia Ward was born in 1819, in New York City, into a strict Episcopalian Calvinist family. Her mother died when she was young, and Julia was raised by an aunt.

When her father, a banker of comfortable but not immense wealth, died, her guardianship became the responsibility of a more liberal-minded uncle. She herself grew more and more liberal -- on religion and on social issues.

At 21 years old, Julia married the reformer Samuel Gridley Howe and became a Unitarian Christian.

She retained until death her belief in a personal, loving God who cared about the affairs of humanity,