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Julia Ward Howe. Reminiscences, 1819-1899
Reminiscences, 1819-1899
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. BIRTH, PARENTAGE, CHILDHOOD
CHAPTER II. LITERARY NEW YORK
CHAPTER III. NEW YORK SOCIETY
CHAPTER IV. HOME LIFE: MY FATHER
CHAPTER V. MY STUDIES
CHAPTER VI. SAMUEL WARD AND THE ASTORS
CHAPTER VII. MARRIAGE: TOUR IN EUROPE
CHAPTER VIII. FIRST YEARS IN BOSTON
CHAPTER IX. SECOND VISIT TO EUROPE
CHAPTER X. A CHAPTER ABOUT MYSELF
CHAPTER XI. ANTI-SLAVERY ATTITUDE: LITERARY WORK: TRIP TO CUBA
CHAPTER XII. THE CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES: IN WAR TIME
CHAPTER XIII. THE BOSTON RADICAL CLUB: DR. F. H. HEDGE
CHAPTER XIV. MEN AND MOVEMENTS IN THE SIXTIES
CHAPTER XV. A WOMAN'S PEACE CRUSADE
CHAPTER XVI. VISITS TO SANTO DOMINGO
CHAPTER XVII. THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT
CHAPTER XVIII. CERTAIN CLUBS
CHAPTER XIX. ANOTHER EUROPEAN TRIP
CHAPTER XX. FRIENDS AND WORTHIES: SOCIAL SUCCESSES
INDEX
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Julia Ward Howe
Published by Good Press, 2021
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"We wore our hair short, and créped all over in short curls, which were kept in place by a spangled ribbon, bound around the head. Powder was universally worn. The Maréchale powder was most becoming to the complexion, having a slight yellowish tinge. We wore trains, but had a set of cords by which we pulled them up in festoons, when we went to dance. Brocades were much worn. I wanted one, but could not find one at the time, so I embroidered a pretty yellow silk dress of mine, and made a brocade of it."
She once mentioned having known, in days long distant, of a company of ladies who had banded themselves together for some new departure of a patriotic intent, and who had waited upon General Washington in a body. I have since ascertained that they called themselves "Daughters of Liberty." A kindred association had been formed of "Sons of Liberty." Perhaps these ladies were of the mind of Mrs. John Adams, who, when congratulating her husband upon the liberties assured to American men by the then new Constitution of the United States, thought it "a pity that the legislators had not also done something for the ladies."
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