Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1819, May 27 | Born, New York, N. Y. |
| 1843 | Married Samuel Gridley Howe (died 1876) |
| 1843-1844 | Toured Europe with her husband |
| 1852-1853 | Wrote articles for the Free Soil journal, The Commonwealth |
| 1854 | Published anonymously Passion-Flowers. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields |
| 1857 | Published The World's Own. Boston: Ticknor and Fields Published Words for the Hour. Boston: Ticknor and Fields |
| 1859 | Visited Cuba |
| 1860 | Published A Trip to Cuba. Boston: Ticknor and Fields |
| 1861 | Wrote "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" to the rhythm of "John Brown's Body"; published in Atlantic Monthly, Feb. 1862 |
| 1864 | Edited The Boatswain's Whistle in Boston |
| 1866 | Published Later Lyrics. Boston: J. E. Tilton |
| 1867 | Toured Europe |
| 1868 | Published From the Oak to the Olive. Boston: Lee & Shepard Elected president of the New England Woman Suffrage Association |
| 1869 | Delivered suffrage addresses to a committee of the Massachusetts legislature and to the American Woman Suffrage Association convention in Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1870 | Wrote "An Appeal to Womanhood Throughout the World" to promote peace Delivered her first sermon from a pulpit, Harrisburg, Pa. Elected president of New England Woman's Club |
| 1871 | Chosen president, American Branch of the Woman's International Peace Association |
| 1872-1879 | Edited with others The Woman's Journal |
| 1873 | Organized the Woman's Liberal Christian Union, Boston, Mass., for women preachers Joined the Association for the Advancement of Women |
| 1874 | Published Sex and Education. Boston: Roberts Brothers |
| 1876 | Published Memoir of Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe. Boston: Printed by A. J. Wright |
| 1877-1879 | Toured Europe and the Middle East |
| 1881 | Published Modern Society. Boston: Roberts Brothers |
| 1883 | Published Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli). Boston: Roberts Brothers. |
| 1884-1885 | President, Department of Woman's Work of the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition in New Orleans, La. |
| 1888 | Lectured across the American West |
| 1891 | Proposed that citizenship tests be given for new immigrant voters, Association for the Advancement of Women convention, Grand Rapids, Mich. |
| 1895 | Published Is Polite Society Polite? Boston: Lamson, Wolffe |
| 1898 | Published From Sunset Ridge. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin |
| 1899 | Published Reminiscences, 1819-1899. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin |
| 1907 | First woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters |
| 1910, Oct. 17 | Died, Newport, R. I. |