[Rarebooks] FS: The first to proclaim Mother's Day

[Charles Agvent]

/HOWE, Julia Ward. AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED (AQS). . Quatrain from an 
unspecified poem on a 7- 1/2" x 5" sheet of paper SIGNED by Howe and 
dated 15 January 1887: "Then spake the Angel of Mothers/To me, in gentle 
tone:/'Be kind to the children of others,/And thus deserve thine own.'" 
Howe, active in the women's suffrage movement, is perhaps best known as 
the author of another poem, "The Battle Hymn of the Republic, written at 
night near the beleaguered capital of Washington at the beginning of the 
Civil War. It earned her the grand total of $5 upon its publication in 
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY along with the added bonus of instant and lasting 
fame. Later she became president of the New England Woman Suffrage 
Association as well as the Association of the Advancement of Women. Howe 
was honored as the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts 
and Letters in 1908, two years before her death at 91. Beautiful lyric 
and a great Mother's Day gift.

In 1870 Howe was the first to proclaim Mother's Day with her Mother's 
Day Proclamation, a call for women to join in support of disarmament and 
a product of her feminist belief that women had a responsibility to 
shape their societies at the political level. This quotation beautifully 
expresses the sentiment of appreciation for this most noble and lifelong 
occupation. (#010003)  $1,000.00

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