Jane Addams
Addams, Jane - 1860–1935, American social worker, b. Cedarville, Ill., grad. Rockford College, 1881. In 1889, with Ellen Gates Starr, she founded Hull House in Chicago, one of the first social settlements in the United States (see settlement house). Based on the university settlements begun in England by Samuel Barnett, Hull House served as a community center for the neighborhood poor and Read More...
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Jane Addams
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Against the Tide: Women Reformers in American Society ("Jane Addams and the Settlement House Movement" begins on p. 85)
by Paul A. Cimbala, Randall M. Miller. 172 pgs.
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Men, Women, and Issues in American History, Vol. II (Chap. 8 "Variations on the Progressive Theme: Jane Addams, Robert M. La Follette, Theodore Roosevelt")
by Howard H. Quint, Milton Cantor. 302 pgs.
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