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Twenty Years at Hull-House

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Second  Edition©2018  Victoria Bissell Brown

ISBN:9781319104726

ISBN:9781319088156

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Gain insight into the Progressive Era and how Jane Addams surfaced as an early leader in protecting immigrants and those on the political margins from indiscriminate police prosecution. Throughout her reforms, Addams founded Hull-House, frequented by immigrants and those in need. Twenty Years at Hull-House not only documents the Addams political philosophy, which guided her reform efforts, but also shares insight into her life and shows the impact her work had through first-person accounts.

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Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

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. William G. Sumner, LL.D., "The Concentration of Wealth: Its Economic Justification," The Independent, 1902

3. Jane Addams, "If Men Were Seeking the Franchise," Ladies’ Home Journal, June 1913

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. Edward Alsworth Ross, "Racial Consequences of Immigration," The Century Magazine, February 1914

6. Gino C. Speranza, "How it Feels to be a Problem," Charities, 1904

7. Philp Davis, "Jane Addams Invites Me in" from And Crown Thy Good (1952)

8. H.J. Pinkett, Omaha, Nebraska to Jane Addams, May 12, 1908

Appendices

An Addams Chronology (1860-1935)

Questions for Consideration

Selected Bibliography

Index

Victoria Bissell Brown

Victoria Bissell Brown (Ph.D., University of California, San Diego) is a Professor Emeritus, Grinnell College. In addition to editing Jane Addamss autobiography, Twenty Years at Hull-House for Bedford/St. Martins, she is the author of The Education of Jane Addams and articles on Addams, on Woodrow Wilson and gender, and on female adolescents in the Progressive era. She has appeared on NPR documentaries about Chicago and on Woodrow Wilson. Brown is currently working on a social history of the American grandmother, 1920-2020