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Radio 4,05 Sep 2006,30 mins

Julia Ward-Howe

Great Lives

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Matthew Parris is joined by Elaine Showalter to discuss the 19th-century American writer Julia Ward-Howe. Best known as the author of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, she was a feminist, pacifist and a great lost poet. Proffessor Gary Williams joins the debate.

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