Elaine Showalter, emeritus professor of English at Princeton University, combines scholarly expertise in English and American literature with a passion for a wide range of cultural subjects. She has written many books, including A Jury of Her Peers, which was awarded the Truman Capote Prize for Literary Criticism.
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Julia Ward (1819–1910) was an heiress and aspiring poet when she married Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, an internationally acclaimed pioneer in the education of the blind. Together the Howes knew many of the key figures of their era, from Charles Dickens to J... SEE MORE