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Twenty years at Hull-House with autobiographical notes / Jane Addams ; illustrated by Norah Hamilton ; with an introduction and notes by James Hurt.
LIBRA - Special HV4196.C4 A3 1990
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935.
- Series:
- Prairie State books
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hull-House (Chicago, Ill.)--History.
- Hull-House (Chicago, Ill.).
- Social settlements--Illinois--Chicago--History.
- Social settlements.
- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935.
- Addams, Jane.
- Women social reformers--United States--Biography.
- Women social reformers.
- Social service.
- History.
- United States.
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Social service--Illinois--Chicago--History.
- Social reformers--United States--Biography.
- Local Subjects:
- Social reformers--United States--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Autobiographie 1890-1910.
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xix, 283 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Other Title:
- 20 years at Hull-House with autobiographical notes
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1990]
- Summary:
- Originally published in 1910, this was Jane Addams' most successful book. Now regarded as a classic of American social history, this first annotated edition is issued on the occasion of the Hull-House centennial. One of the most important books ever written in the United States, Twenty Years at Hull-House remains a classic because it addresses large questions of human destiny and social justice in terms that are as relevant today as they were one hundred years ago.'Kathryn Kish Sklar, author of Catherine Beecher: A Study in American Domesticity.
- Contents:
- Earliest impressions
- Influence of Lincoln
- Boarding-school ideals
- The snare of preparation
- First days at Hull-House
- The subjective necessity for social settlements
- Some early undertakings at Hull-House
- Problems of poverty
- A decade of economic discussion
- Pioneer labor legislation in Illinois
- Immigrants and their children
- Tolstoyism
- Public activities and investigations
- Civic Cooperation
- The value of social clubs
- Arts at Hull-House
- Echoes of the Russian Revolution
- Socialized education.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-274).
- ISBN:
- 0252061071
- 9780252061073
- OCLC:
- 19886208
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