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Hungry heart : the literary emergence of Julia Ward Howe
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- Summary
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Reexamines the early literary career of Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910), best remembered as the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."
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- Creator
- Gary Williams
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [1999]
- ©1999
- Physical Details
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- xii, 273 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1558491570, 9781558491571
- OCLC
- ocm39497640
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-268) and index.
- "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