Jane Addams (1860–1935)
Author of Twenty Years at Hull-House
About the Author
Jane Addams was born Laura Jane Addams in Cedarville, Illinois, on September 6, 1860. She graduated from Rockford Female Seminary with the hope of attending medical school. Her father opposed her unconventional ambition and, in an attempt to redirect it, sent her to Europe. In London, Addams was show more moved by the work done at Toynbee Hall, a settlement house. Upon her return to the United States, she began her lifelong fight for the underprivileged, women, children laborers, and social reform. In the space of four years she received Yale University's first honorary doctorate awarded to a woman, published her first book, was the first woman president of the National Conference of Charities and Corrections, and was elected vice president of the National American Women Suffrage Association. In 1915 she became the first president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. With Ellen G. Starr, Addams founded Hull House in Chicago, a renowned settlement house dedicated to serving the disadvantaged and the poor. Addams went on to author twelve books, including Twenty Years in Hull House, Newer Ideals of Peace, and Peace and Bread in Time of War. The latter title was written to protest the U.S.'s involvement in World War I and was based on Addams's experience assisting Herbert Hoover in sending relief supplies to women and children in enemy nations. Hospitalized following a heart attack in 1926, Addams could not accept in person the Nobel Peace Prize she was awarded in 1931. She was the first American woman to receive the honor. Addams died in 1935. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Works by Jane Addams
Hull-House Maps and Papers: A Presentation of Nationalities and Wages in a Congested District of Chicago, Together with… (2007) 14 copies
The second twenty years at Hull-house, September 1909 to September 1929, with a record of a growing world consciousness (1930) 10 copies
Women at the Hague : The International Congress of Women and Its Results : By Three Delegates to the Congress from The… (2003) 10 copies
Forty Years at Hull-House: Being "Twenty Years at Hull-House" and "The Second Twenty Years at Hull-House" (2010) 6 copies
New Ideals of Peace 2 copies
The Collected Works of Jane Addams: Democracy and Social Ethics, The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets, Why Women… (2018) 1 copy
A Modern Lear 1 copy
Illustrious Americans, 1968 1 copy
Associated Works
Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (1994) — Contributor — 121 copies
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Contributor — 81 copies
Democracy in Print: The best of the Progressive Magazine, 1909-2009 (2009) — Contributor — 14 copies
Jane Addams, Mary Richmond und Alice Salomon: Professionalisierung und Disziplinbildung Sozialer Arbeit (2013) — Asociated Name — 2 copies
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- Other names
- ADDAMS, Jane
- Birthdate
- 1860-09-06
- Date of death
- 1935-05-21
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Cedarville, Illinois, USA
- Place of death
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Relationships
- Villard, Fanny Garrison (colleague)
- Organizations
- Hull House
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- Works
- 41
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- 10
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- 1,276
- Popularity
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- Rating
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- ISBNs
- 192
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- 6
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