18 of the Best Books for National Reading Month
Frisky fish, pensive poets, illicit lovers...and more
By Kseniya Melnik, Elliott Holt, Leigh Haber, Dotun Akintoye, Natalie Beach and Hamilton Cain
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The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe
By Elaine Showalter
320 pages;
Simon & Schuster
We all know "Battle Hymn of the Republic," but not much about the woman who composed it. Howe–a New York suffragette, abolitionist, and mother of six nicknamed "the Diva"–is the subject of this invigorating feminist biography.
— Natalie Beach
Published 03/01/2016
