Twenty Years at Hull-House

Description

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.

First Sentence

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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Other Editions

• Twenty Years at Hull-HousePaperbackSignet Classics1961-09-01
• 20 years at Hull-House.The Macmillan Company1912-01-01
• Twenty years at Hull-HouseMacmillan1938-01-01
• Twenty Years at Hull-HousePaperbackSignet Classics1961-09-01
• Twenty Years at Hull-House (Signet Classics)Signet Classics1961-09-01
• Twenty Years at Hull-HousePaperbackSignet Classics1961-09-01