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Twenty Years at Hull House: With Autobiographical Notes Mass market paperbound - 1998

by Jane Addams; Ruth Sidel; Norah Hamilton (Illustrator)


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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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An inspiring memoir -- and an important document of the progressive era

On September 18, 1889, the doors of Hull-House, a decayed mansion in Chicago's West Side slums, opened for the first time, and one of the great social movements in modern America was launched. Twenty Years at Hull-House is Jane Addams's account of the famed settlement house she founded and of the principles of social justice that inspired her. Addams tells the real stories of the people fictionalized in the novels of Theodore Dreiser and Upton Sinclair, bringing to life newly arrived immigrants who were forced to live on the margin of society, working intolerable hours for little pay and crowded into slums teeming with disease, crime, and vice. She describes her decision to establish Hull-House as a refuge and chronicles its development into a vibrant community center, providing not only social services but social evenings, ethnic celebrations, and classes that offered the best of American culture and values to an alien and despised population.

As Ruth Sidel writes in her Introduction, Twenty Years at Hull-House dramaticizes a lesson that every generation has to learn anew: the essential place of education and culture at every level of society to ensure the continuation of American democracy.

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  • Title Twenty Years at Hull House: With Autobiographical Notes
  • Author Jane Addams; Ruth Sidel; Norah Hamilton (Illustrator)
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition New edition
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Group, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 1998-07-01
  • ISBN 9780141180991 / 0141180994
  • Weight 0.51 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.84 x 5.18 x 0.7 in (19.91 x 13.16 x 1.78 cm)
  • Reading level 1650
  • Library of Congress subjects Women social reformers - United States -, Hull House (Chicago, Ill.) - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98004875
  • Dewey Decimal Code B
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