Editing Samuel Gridley Howe (section)

==Marriage and family==
[[File:John_Elliott_-_Julia_Ward_Howe_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg|thumb|Julia Ward Howe painted by [[John Elliott (artist)|John Elliott]]]]
On April 23, 1843, at the age of 41, Howe married the younger [[Julia Ward Howe|Julia Ward]], the daughter of wealthy New York banker [[Samuel Ward (banker)|Samuel Ward]] and Julia Rush (Cutler) Ward.<ref>Ziegler, Valarie H. ''Diva Julia: The Public Romance and Private Agony of Julia Ward Howe,'' page 31. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2003</ref> Julia was an ardent supporter of abolitionism and was later active in the cause of [[Women's suffrage in the United States|woman's suffrage]]. She composed the "[[Battle Hymn of the Republic]]" during the [[American Civil War]].
[[File:Samuel_Gridley_and_Julia_Ward_Howe_House_Boston_MA.jpg|thumb|Between 1863 and 1866, Samuel Gridley and Julia Ward Howe lived at [[Samuel Gridley and Julia Ward Howe House|13 Chestnut Street]] in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston ]]
They had a passionate and stormy marriage.<ref name="Venet, Wendy Hamand page 95">Venet, Wendy Hamand. ''Neither Ballots Nor Bullets: Women Abolitionists and the Civil War,'' page 95. University of Virginia Press, 1991</ref> Julia wrote in her diary of Howe (whom she referred to as "Chev"):
{{blockquote|Chev is one of the characters based upon opposition. While I always seem to work for an unseen friend, he always sees an armed adversary and nerves himself accordingly. So all our lives turn on what I may call moral or personal fiction ...<ref>Ziegler, Valarie H. ''Diva Julia: The Public Romance and Private Agony of Julia Ward Howe,'' page 107. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2003</ref>}}

At one point Samuel requested a legal separation, but Julia refused.<ref name="Venet, Wendy Hamand page 95"/> Many of their arguments centered on Julia's desire to have a career apart from motherhood.<ref name="Ziegler, Valarie H page 8">Ziegler, Valarie H. ''Diva Julia: The Public Romance and Private Agony of Julia Ward Howe,'' page 8. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2003</ref> While Howe was in many ways progressive by the standards of the day, he did not support the idea of married women having any work other than that of wife and mother. He believed that Julia's proper place was in the home.<ref name="Ziegler, Valarie H page 8"/><ref>Ziegler, Valarie H. ''Diva Julia: The Public Romance and Private Agony of Julia Ward Howe,'' page 27. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2003</ref>

The couple had six children: [[Julia R. Anagnos|Julia Romana Howe]] (1844–1886), who married [[Michael Anagnos]], a Greek scholar who succeeded Howe as director of the Perkins Institute;<ref>Ziegler, Valarie H. ''Diva Julia: The Public Romance and Private Agony of Julia Ward Howe,'' page 141. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2003</ref> [[Florence Hall (Pulitzer Prize winner)|Florence Marion Howe]] (1845–1922), a [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning author,<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=63nvmt4HqTEC&pg=PA8|title=Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners|last1=Brennan|first1=Elizabeth A.|last2=Clarage|first2=Elizabeth C.|date=1999|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=9781573561112|language=en}}</ref> who wrote a well-known treatise on manners and married David Prescott Hall, a lawyer; [[Henry Marion Howe]] (1848–1922), a metallurgist who lived in New York; [[Laura E. Richards|Laura Elizabeth Howe]] (1850–1943), also a [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning author,<ref name="Ziegler, Valarie H page 11">Ziegler, Valarie H. ''Diva Julia: The Public Romance and Private Agony of Julia Ward Howe,'' page 11. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2003</ref> who married Henry Richards and lived in Maine; [[Maud Howe Elliott|Maud Howe]] (1854–1948), a [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning author,<ref name="Ziegler, Valarie H page 11"/> who married [[John Elliott (artist)|John Elliott]], an English muralist and illustrator; and Samuel Gridley Howe, Jr. (1858–1863), who died at age five.

Laura and Florence were closest to their father and defended his opposition to Julia's activities outside the home.<ref>Ziegler, Valarie H. ''Diva Julia: The Public Romance and Private Agony of Julia Ward Howe,'' page 103. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2003</ref> Florence later took up her mother's mantle as a committed suffragette, making public speeches on the subject and writing the book, ''Julia Ward Howe and the Woman Suffrage Movement'' (1913).<ref>Hall, Florence Howe. ''Julia Ward Howe and the Woman Suffrage Movement.'' Boston: Dana Estes & Company, 1913.</ref><ref>Hall, Florence Howe. ''Memories Grave and Gay,'' pp. 269–270. New York: Harper & Bros., 1918</ref>