Summary
Jane Addams's narrative of life in an immigrant urban neighborhood provides students with an introduction to the issues of the Progressive era and the tenets of social activism. This new teaching edition reduces Addams's original text by about 35 percent, trimming illustrative detail to focus on the ideological underpinnings of the original work. The author sketches a brief biographical portrait of Addams, outlines the decisions and convictions that led her to found Hull-House, and includes a vivid picture of turn-of-the-century Chicago. Related documents include a description of life at Hull-House from the perspective of an immigrant who frequented it, an early review of Hull-House, and perspectives from other reformers.
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On the theory that our genuine impulses may be connected with our childish experiences, that one's bent may be tracked back to that "No-Man's Land" where character is formless but nevertheless settling into definite lines of future development, I begin this record with some impressions of my childhood.
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- Title Twenty Years at Hull-House
- Author Jane Addams
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Fourth Printing
- Language EN
- Publisher Signet Classics, New York NY
- Date September 1, 1961
- ISBN 9780451512840
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TWENTY YEARS AT HULL HOUSE With Autobiographical Notes
by Addams, Jane
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New York NY: Signet. 1961. Fourth Printing. Paperback. 0451512847 . Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Pencil marks on a few pages. ; Foreword by Henry Steele Commager; B&W Illustrations; 320 pages .
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