Passion-Flowers
by Howe, Julia Ward
Julia Ward Howe was an American poet and author best known for writing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic", but she was also an advocate for abolitionism and a social activist, particularly for women's suffrage.
Her first book of poetry, a compendium of emotional and person poetry called Passion-Flowers, was complied in secret and published anonymously in 1854 with help from Longfellow and Ticknor. Her husband was not pleased with the nearly erotic and emotional poetry and found it scandalous - in fact, other proper Bostonians thought the same. Nathaniel Hawthorne opined that Howe "ought to have been soundly whipped" for publishing it!
Many of the reprints of Passion-Flowers found some of the poems tweaked or retitled to soothe her marriage, although her husband never truly forgave her for being a more successful poet and writer than himself.
Many of the reprints of Passion-Flowers found some of the poems tweaked or retitled to soothe her marriage, although her husband never truly forgave her for being a more successful poet and writer than himself.
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First published with only 1,000 copies in Boston by Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1854 with brown blindstamped cloth and gilt lettering on the spine. The book was so popular that there was a second and third print run in 1854.
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Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1854. First edition of Julia Ward Howe's first book. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, publisher's advertisements at rear dated 1853. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper prior to publication, "Lizzie Agassiz from her Julia Howe Dec. 22nd 1853." The recipient, Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz was an… Read more
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Boston : Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1854. First Edition. Worn copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Panels are dust-toned as with age. Spine bands are worn. Text remains clear and unblemished. SIGNED by Julia Howe Ward.. Physical description; iv, 187 p. ; 19 cm. Subject; Passion-flowers.
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Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1854. First edition, 8vo, pp. iv, 187, [3], 8 (ads dated November, 1853); original brown blindstamped cloth (BAL's binding 'B' - no priority), gilt lettering on spine; top of spine cracked, small discard stamp on endpapers, evidence of bookplate removal from front pastedown and pocket removal from rear pastedown, and the author's name, "Howe,"… Read more
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