Maud Howe Elliott

Maud Howe Elliott (1854–1948) was an American writer, the daughter of Julia Ward Howe, author of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, and the reformer Samuel Gridley Howe. Raised in Boston and Newport, she married the English-born artist John Elliott and lived for long periods in Rome, which she described in Roma Beata and Sun and Shadow in Spain. Her novels include A Newport Aquarelle and The San Rosario Ranch. With her sister Laura E. Richards she wrote a life of their mother that won the first Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1917. She was a founder of the Art Association of Newport and a campaigner for women's suffrage.