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Twenty Years at Hull-House

Second Edition  ©2018 Victoria Bissell Brown Formats: E-book, Print

Authors

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    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

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

Product Updates

Authors

  • Headshot of Victoria Bissell Brown

    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

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

Product Updates

This new edition of Twenty Years at Hull-House highlights the importance of Jane Addams as an early leader of the Progressive movement. Addams’s narrative of life in an immigrant urban neighborhood provides students with an entry into the ideology of the Progressive era and the tenets of social activism. The revised, more concise, introduction provides a brief biographical sketch of Addams, outlines the convictions and decisions that led her to found Hull-House, highlights the political philosophy that guided her reform efforts, and traces Addams’s defense of her efforts to protect immigrants and those on the political margins from indiscriminate police prosecution. New related documents incorporate a diverse range of voices, including the memoir of an immigrant from Belarus who frequented Hull-House, an editorial by an Italian-American that felt out of place in America, and a letter from an African-American lawyer committed to fighting oppression. Readers of the revised edition will also find an updated bibliography and new questions for consideration.

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