Fun Fact: Julia Ward Howe (top center and pictured here with Thomas G. Appleton, John G. Coster, Fanny Appleton Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Augusta Freeman) was not only was a famous writer and feminist, she also spoke four languages and taught herself Greek at age 50. Photo courtesy of Perkins School for the Blind Archives. Tickets to "Representation and How To Get It" are available at 4thwallstagecompany.org. May 10th and 11th. #JuliaWardHowe #Representation #Herstory #UnsungHeroes #UnsungHeroines #FeminismInPolitics #Suffragist #Abolitionist #SocialActivism #BeSwiftMySoulBeJubilantMyFeet
Fun Fact about Julia Ward Howe from an article by Nina Martyris: In 1910, at the age of 91, Howe wrote to her physician for permission to eat ham and pastry, foods her family thought too rich for the summer. She was virtuously advised against the pâté de foie gras and champagne. Ignoring the busybodies, she helped herself to both. You go girl! "Representation and How To Get It" is running May 10-11 and tickets are available at 4thwallstagecompany.org. #JuliaWardHowe #Representation #Herstory #UnsungHeroes #UnsungHeroines #FeminismInPolitics #Suffragist #Abolitionist #SocialActivism #BeSwiftMySoulBeJubilantMyFeet
Mother's Day Proclamation: Arise, all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be that of water or of tears! Say firmly: “We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies, our husbands shall not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause. “Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience. We women of one country will be too tender of those of another country to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.” From the bosom of the devastated earth a voice goes up with our own. It says, “Disarm, disarm! The sword is not the balance of justice.” Blood does not wipe out dishonor nor violence indicate possession. As men have often forsaken the plow and the anvil at the summons of war, let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel. Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead. Let them then solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means whereby the great human family can live in peace, each learning after his own time, the sacred impress, not of Caesar, but of God. In the name of womanhood and of humanity, I earnestly ask that a general congress of women without limit of nationality may be appointed and held at some place deemed most convenient and at the earliest period consistent with its objects, to promote the alliance of the different nationalities, the amicable settlement of international questions, the great and general interests of peace. #JuliaWardHowe #Representation #Herstory #UnsungHeroes #UnsungHeroines #FeminismInPolitics #Suffragist #Abolitionist #SocialActivism #BeSwiftMySoulBeJubilantMyFeet
Fun fact about Julia Ward Howe: Despite her husband's expectations that she set aside her creative outlets and become a perfect spouse and mother, she gained such fame from writing the lyrics to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" that she started accepting invitations to speak. By 1868, she was speaking for women's suffrage and after her husband's funeral in 1876, she began a whole new life, saying, "Life is like a cup of tea — the sugar is all at the bottom." Come see Elaine Vaan Hogue bring Julia Ward Howe to life on May 10th and 11th at the Worcester Historical Museum @worcesterhistoricalmuseum. Tickets available at 4thwallstagecompany.org. #JuliaWardHowe #Representation #Herstory #UnsungHeroes #UnsungHeroines #FeminismInPolitics #Suffragist #Abolitionist #SocialActivism #BeSwiftMySoulBeJubilantMyFeet
Fun fact about Julia Ward Howe: She was honored by the US Postal Service in 1987 as part of their Great American Series. Come see Elaine Vaan Hogue bring her to life at the @worcesterhistoricalmuseum Worcester Historical Museum on May 10th and 11th. Tickets at 4thwallstagecompany.org. #JuliaWardHowe #Representation #Herstory #UnsungHeroes #UnsungHeroines #FeminismInPolitics #Suffragist #Abolitionist #SocialActivism #BeSwiftMySoulBeJubilantMyFeet
This painting of Julia Ward Howe hangs in the National Portrait Gallery USA @smithsoniannpg. On May 10th and 11th, Elaine Vaan Hogue will be bringing her to life at the Worcester Historical Museum @worcesterhistoricalmuseum. Tickets available at www.4thwallstagecompany.org. #JuliaWardHowe #Representation #Herstory #UnsungHeroes #UnsungHeroines #FeminismInPolitics #Suffragist #Abolitionist #SocialActivism #BeSwiftMySoulBeJubilantMyFeet