Maud (Howe) Elliott (1854 - 1948)

Born 9 Nov 1854 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States

Ancestors

Wife of John Elliott — married 10 Feb 1887 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States

Died 19 Mar 1948 at age 93 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United States

Biography

Maud Howe Elliott (November 9, 1854, Boston, Massachusetts – March 19, 1948, Newport, Rhode Island) was an American writer, most notable for her Pulitzer prize-winning collaboration with her sister, Laura E. Richards, on their mother's biography The Life of Julia Ward Howe (1916). Her other works included A Newport Aquarelle (1883); Phillida (1891); Mammon, later published as Honor: A Novel (1893); Roma Beata, Letters from the Eternal City (1903); The Eleventh Hour in the Life of Julia Ward Howe (1911); Three Generations (1923); John Elliott, The Story of an Artist (1930); My Cousin, F. Marion Crawford (1934); and This Was My Newport (1944).[1]

Her father was Samuel Gridley Howe and her mother was Julia Ward Howe. She married English artist John Elliott in 1887.

Elliott was born at the Perkins School for the Blind in Boston, which was founded by her father, who was also its first director. After her marriage, she lived in Chicago (1892–93) and Italy (1894-1900/1906-1910), before moving to Newport where she spent the rest of her life. She was a patron of the arts, was a founding member of the Newport Art Association, and served as its secretary from 1912-1942.[2] Howe was also a founder of the Progressive Party and took part in the suffrage movement.[3]

Married 7 Feb. 1887, John Elliott, b. in London, Eng., 22 April 1858; he was an artist, and lived for a time in Rome, Italy.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Daniel Wait Howe, Howe Genealogies, Vol. 2, Abraham of Roxbury, NEHGS; Boston; 1929; p103.

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113019727/maud-elliott
• "Massachusetts State Census, 1855," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KXK5-XGD : 9 March 2018), Julia Howe in household of Samuel G Howe, Ward 12, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States; State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 953,960.
• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZCX-T8S : 19 March 2020), Julia W Howe in entry for Samuel G Howe, 1860.
• "Massachusetts State Census, 1865", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQH4-KMP : 1 June 2018), Julia W Howe in entry for Saml G Howe, 1865.
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHXV-RBK : 12 August 2017), Julia Ward Howe, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district ED 642, sheet 299D, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,554.