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The Education of Jane Addams
Selected by "Choice" magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title"The Education of Jane Addams" traces, with unprecedented care, Addams's three-decade journey from a privileged prairie girlhood through her years as the competent spinster daughter in a demanding family after her father's death to her early seasoning on the Chicago reform scene. It weaves he
...moreHardcover, 432 pages
Published
October 29th 2003
by University of Pennsylvania Press
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After Illinois proclaimed Dec 10 as Jane Addams day, I realized I needed to find a good Jane Addams bio to learn more. Oddly, despite the fact that Jane Addams died in 1935 and was active until her death, most biographies end just after the founding of Hull House -- as does this one. This bio is well written, well researched, and balanced. It's based on Jane's own correspondence and contrasts those letters with what Jane wrote about herself later in her autobiography. I've knocked off a star...more
In a remarkably insightful biographical treatment of Addams's coming of age, Brown shows how Addams struggled, in the context of her relations with family & friends and of the ideas of the time, to discover how best to be useful in the world.
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