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Twenty years at Hull-House with autobiographical notes / Jane Addams ; edited with an introduction by Victoria Bissell Brown.

Author: Addams, Jane, 1860-1935.

Imprint:Boston, MA : Bedford/St. Martin's, c1999.

Descriptionxii, 276 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Note:PART ONE: INTRODUCTION: JANE ADDAMS CONSTRUCTS HERSELF AND HULL-HOUSE: -- Growing up in the Gilded Age -- The nature and purpose of memoir -- Twenty Years at Hull-House in place and time -- Inside Hull-House -- Jane Addams and the Progressive Era -- PART TWO: THE DOCUMENT: Twenty years at Hull-House with autobiographical notes -- PART THREE: RELATED DOCUMENTS: 1. Hull-House weekly program, March 1, 1892 -- 2. Florence Kelley, "Hull-House," New England Magazine, July 1898 -- 3. William G. Sumner, LL.D., "The concentration of wealth: its economic justification," The Independent, 1902 -- 4. "An oft-told tale" and "The lamb tags on to the lion," The New York Call, April 25, 1912 and August 11, 1912 -- 5. Jane Addams, "If men were seeking the franchise," Ladies' Home Journal, June 1913 -- 6. Edward Alsworth Ross, "Racial consequences of immigration," The Century Magazine, February 1914 -- 7. Hilda Satt Polacheck, I came a stranger: the story of a Hull-House girl -- APPENDICES: An Addams chronology (1860-1935)

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-262) and index. "Selected bibliography" : p. 259-262.

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Author:
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935.
Series Added Entry
Bedford series in history and culture
Subject:
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935.
Subject:
Hull-House (Chicago, Ill.) -- History.
Social settlements -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.
Women social reformers -- United States -- Biography.
Social service -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.
Index Term - Genre/Form
Primary sources.
Contributor
Brown, Victoria (Victoria Bissell)