Julia Ward Howe.
FROM SUNSET RIDGE: Poems Old and New. 12mo, $1.50.
REMINISCENCES. With many Portraits and other Illustrations. Crown 8vo, $2.50.
IS POLITE SOCIETY POLITE? and other Essays. With a Portrait of Mrs. Howe. Square 8vo, $1.50.
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.
Boston and New York.

REMINISCENCES

1819-1899

BY
JULIA WARD HOWE
WITH PORTRAITS AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1899
COPYRIGHT, 1899, BY JULIA WARD HOWE
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

CONTENTS

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I. Birth, Parentage, Childhood [1]
II. Literary New York [21]
III. New York Society [29]
IV. Home Life: My Father [43]
V. My Studies [56]
VI. Samuel Ward and the Astors [64]
VII. Marriage: Tour in Europe [81]
VIII. First Years in Boston [144]
IX. Second Visit to Europe [188]
X. A Chapter about Myself [205]
XI. Anti-Slavery Attitude: Literary Work: Trip to Cuba [218]
XII. The Church of the Disciples: in War Time [244]
XIII. The Boston Radical Club: Dr. F. H. Hedge [281]
XIV. Men and Movements in the Sixties [304]
XV. A Woman's Peace Crusade [327]
XVI. Visits to Santo Domingo [345]
XVII. The Woman Suffrage Movement [372]
XVIII. Certain Clubs [400]
XIX. Another European Trip [410]
XX. Friends and Worthies: Social Successes [428]

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