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At age 69, she's now a swan.(The Orange County Register)
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She called herself "an ugly duckling" during her long, hard-working years _ first on a poverty-stricken farm in Ontario, Canada, then for 30 on the assembly line in a glass factory in Santa Ana, Calif.
Now, at 69, she calls herself a "swan."
Retired and widowed nine years ago, she has emerged into a life surrounded by history, romanticism and dreams _ a life of her own making.
Even her name is different _ Mary Snowbird Mezurecky. "When I was born, my mother said I looked like a snowbird peeking out from my blanket," she says, "but I never claimed ...
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Hungry Heart: The Literary Emergence of Julia Ward Howe.
Magazine article from: Legacy
; ...The Literary Emergence of Julia Ward Howe. Among Julia Ward Howe's pre-Civil War...The Literary Emergence of Julia Ward Howe is a literary biography that...and white illustrations of the Howes, Julia's friends, and hermaphrodite...
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Hungry Heart: The Literary Emergence of Julia Ward Howe.(Review) (book review)
Magazine article from: Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers
; ...288 pp. $34.95 cloth. Among Julia Ward Howe's pre-Civil War writings...Heart: The Literary Emergence of Julia Ward Howe is a literary biography that explodes...and white illustrations of the Howes, Julia's friends, and hermaphrodite...
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Margaret Fuller on the early poetry of Julia Ward Howe: an uncollected letter.
Magazine article from: ANQ
; ...One of those young writers was Julia Ward Howe, later the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." The Julia Ward Howe Papers in Schlesinger...reevaluating her earlier opinion of Julia Ward by considering her poetry and...
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A call to work for peace Kin of Julia Ward Howe rekindle her original goal for Mother's Day
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; PROVIDENCE -- The descendants of Julia Ward Howe are asking mothers and children across the nation today...revive the day's original meaning. Back in 1872, Julia Ward Howe founded it as a "Mother's Day for Peace...
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New stamp honors Julia Ward Howe
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; Julia Ward Howe, the social reformer who wrote the lyrics...envelope to Customer-Affixed Envelopes, Julia Ward Howe Stamp, Postmaster, Boston...send stuffed, addressed envelopes to Julia Ward Howe Stamp, Postmaster, Boston...
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Julia Ward Howe Award for Young Readers.(Awards)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Horn Book Magazine
; The Fattening Hut (Houghton) by Pat Lowery Collins wins the 2004 Julia Ward Howe Award for Young Readers, given annually by the Boston Authors Club.
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Battle Hymn of the Holiday Book Table (with apologies to Julia Ward Howe).(Brief Article)(Poem)(Illustration)
Magazine article from: The Horn Book Magazine
; Mine eyes have seen the horror of the curse that's here to stay, Books that have been written just to sell a holiday. What a scam to fool the public and to make a quick payday. Holiday Sales keep marching on. Refrain: Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah too. Easter, Flag Day, Halloween boo! Mother's Day
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Who was Henry Howe? (part 1)(steel technologist Henry Marion Howe)
Magazine article from: Advanced Materials & Processes
; ...This is the 74th consecutive Howe Memorial Lecture, a tradition...underdog. Harry's mother, Julia Ward, came from an aristocratic...that era, and was thus called Julia Ward Howe. Two daughters, Julia and Florence (named after Florence...
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Who was Henry Howe?
Magazine article from: Metallurgical and Materials Transactions
; ...THIS is the 74th consecutive Howe Memorial Lecture, a tradition...underdog. Harry's mother, Julia Ward, came from an aristocratic...that era, and was thus called Julia Ward Howe. Two daughters, Julia and Florence (named after Florence...
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Principal for a day gives Howe School computers, parent training
Newspaper article from: Chicago Defender
; Principal for a day gives Howe School computers, parent training...last year as Principal for a Day at Julia Ward Howe Elementary School and had what his...example for students and teachers at Howe School, 720 N. Lorel Ave., it...
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