The education of Jane Addams / Victoria Bissell Brown.
"When she penned her autobiography Twenty Years at Hull-House in 1909, Jane Addams was one of the most famous and influential women in the country. Committed pacifist and champion of social progress, she was also deemed by the contemporary media to be the only saint America had produced. Writin...
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2004]
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| Series: | Politics and culture in modern America.
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Table of Contents:
- Self-made man
- The predominant elements of her character
- Sober, serious, and earnest
- Bread givers
- My relations to God and the universe
- Cassandra
- Claims so keenly felt
- Scenes among Gods and giants
- Never the typical old maid
- Some curious conclusions
- The subjective necessity for the social settlement
- Power in me and will to dominate
- The luminous medium
- Unity of action
- What we know is right.