Book Review|’The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe,’ by Elaine Showalter – New York Times


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Book Review|'The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe,' by Elaine Showalter
New York Times
Julia Ward Howe, circa 1855. Credit Engraving after a drawing by Porter; Hulton Archive β€” Getty Images. β€œIt needed a very serene or a very powerful mind to resist the temptation to anger,” Virginia Woolf wrote in 1929 in an essay about 19th-century