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Twenty Years at Hull House » (Reprint)

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Authors: Jane Addams, Ruth W. Messinger (Afterword), Henry Steele Commager
ISBN-13: 9780451527394, ISBN-10: 0451527399
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Date Published: September 1999
Edition: Reprint

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Author Biography: Jane Addams

Book Synopsis

Addams's account about the founding and development of her famed settlement house in Chicago's West Side slums stands as the immortal testament of a woman who lived and worked among those in need.

Library Journal

The Turgenev standby gets a facelift for the 1990s, thanks to translator Katz, professor of Russian and director of the Center for Post-Soviet and East European Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. The growing popularity of new translations of Russian classics, such as the recent Notes from Underground (Classic Returns, LJ 7/93), should induce interest in Turgenev's work. For public and academic libraries.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Pt. 1Introduction: Jane Addams Constructs Herself and Hull-House1
Growing Up in the Gilded Age4
The Nature and Purpose of Memoir11
Twenty Years at Hull-House in Place and Time15
Inside Hull-House18
Jane Addams and the Progressive Era31
Pt. 2The Document39
Twenty Years at Hull-House with Autobiographical Notes41
Pt. 3Related Documents207
1Hull-House Weekly Program, March 1, 1892207
2"Hull-House," New England Magazine, July 1898219
3"The Concentration of Wealth: Its Economic Justification," The Independent, 1902225
4"An Oft-Told Tale" and "The Lamb Tags on to the Lion," The New York Call, April 25, 1912 and August 11, 1912229
5"If Men Were Seeking the Franchise," Ladies' Home Journal, June 1913232
6"Racial Consequences of Immigration," The Century Magazine, February 1914238
7I Came a Stranger: The Story of a Hull-House Girl243
An Addams Chronology (1860-1935)253
Selected Bibliography259
Index263

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