Nonfiction · 1910
Twenty Years at Hull House
With Autobiographical Notes
Jane Addams recounts how she and a handful of others founded Hull House in a rundown Chicago neighborhood in 1889 and built it, year by year, into one of the first and most influential American settlement houses — a place offering immigrant working families education, childcare, and a political voice, and pioneering methods of social work still practiced today.
Published in 1910, Twenty Years at Hull House is Addams's own account of that founding and its first two decades, from a woman who would go on to help found the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and become, in 1931, the first American woman awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Contents
- Note
- Preface
- Preface
- Chapter I — Earliest Impressions
- Chapter II — Influence of Lincoln
- Chapter III — Boarding-School Ideals
- Chapter IV — The Snare of Preparation
- Chapter V — First Days at Hull-House
- Chapter VI — Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements
- Chapter VII — Some Early Undertakings at Hull-House
- Chapter VII — Problems of Poverty
- Chapter IX — A Decade of Economic Discussion
- Chapter X — Pioneer Labor Legislation in Illinois
- Chapter XI — Immigrants and Their Children
- Chapter XII — Tolstoyism
- Chapter XIII — Public Activities and Investigations
- Chapter XIV — Civic Cooperation
- Chapter XV — The Value of Social Clubs
- Chapter XVI — Arts at Hull-House
- Chapter XVII — Echoes of the Russian Revolution
- Chapter XVIII — Socialized Education
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1860–1935 · Modern
Jane Addams (1860–1935) was born in Cedarville, Illinois, and in 1889 co-founded Hull House in Chicago, one of the first and most influential American settlement houses, offering education, childcare, and social services to the surrounding immigrant working-class neighborhood while pioneering methods of social work and social research still used today. A leading figure of the Progressive Era women's movement, she was also a prominent pacifist, helping found the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom during the First World War, work for which she shared the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize — the first American woman to receive it. Twenty Years at Hull House (1910) is her own account of the settlement's founding and its first two decades. She died in Chicago at seventy-four.
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