"Unfailingly vivid--and fair-minded" -- The Atlantic "Riveting" -- The New York Times Book Review "A biography with the verve and pace of a delicious novel...a polemic and a pleasure." -- The Boston Globe The first biography to reveal Julia Ward Howe--the author of The Battle Hymn of the Republic --as a feminist pioneer who fought her own battle for creative freedom and independence. Julia Ward (1819-1910) was a heiress and aspiring poet when she...