Publisher's Synopsis
Florence Howe Hall (1845-1922) was an American writer, critic, and lecturer on women's suffrage in the US. She was the daughter of Dr Samuel Gridley Howe, an abolitionist and the founder of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind, and Julia Ward Howe who wrote the words to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." Together with her sisters Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards and Maude Howe Elliott, she received the first Pulitzer Prize for a biography, for their collaborative work on their mother entitled Julia Ward Howe. This memoir looking back on her own life was first published in 1918. With a photographic portrait of the author.
