her interest in the emancipation of woman takes more definite form, 372, 373; attends the meeting to found the New England Woman's Club, 374; joins the woman suffrage movement, 375; her efforts for that cause, 376; gains experience, 377; trips to promote the cause, 379-381; at legislative hearings, 381-384; attends the woman's congress in 1868, 385; elected fourth president of the Association for the Advancement of Women, 393; directs the woman's department at a Boston fair, 394; at the New Orleans Exposition, 395; difficulties encountered there, 396; speech to the negroes, 398; considered _clubable_ by Dr. Holmes, 400; presides at a mock "Commencement," 403; goes abroad with her daughter Maud in 1877: entertained by Lord Houghton, 410; breakfasts with Mr. Gladstone, 411; goes to the House of Commons with Charles Parnell, 412; visits Paris, 413; goes to the French Academy, 414; at the crowning of a _rosière_, 415; visits Doré's studio, 416-419; lectures in Paris, 419; president of a woman's rights congress, 420; at the Healys' ball, 421; speaks on suffrage in Italy, 422; visits Princess Belgioiosa, 422, 423; sees Umberto crowned, 424; reads with Madame Ristori, 424, 425; sees Leo XIII. consecrated, 426; meets Washington Allston, 429; first acquaintance with John S. Dwight, 435; feeling of loss at Otto Dresel's death, 438; her eldest daughter's death, 439; successes and failures of her life, 442-444. Howe, Maud. See Elliott, Mrs.