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TWENTY YEARS AT HULL HOUSE: With Autobiographical Notes. With Illustrations by Norah Hamilton

by ADDAMS, Jane

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New York: Macmillan, 1910. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Norah Hamilton. 8vo; ix, 462 pages, cocked, variant publisher's binding lacking the picture of Hull House on the top cover and the title, but titled with imprint on the spine.

Classic autobiography by this great lady who invented settlement houses, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. A "faithful record of the years since the autumn of 1889 when without any preconceived social theories or economic views, I came to live in an industrial district of Chicago - Preface." Color cover plate by Frank Hazenplug, Twelve plates, including 9 drawings by Norah Hamilton; textual illustrations including 4 photographs by Lewis W. Hine. [ CHICAGO BY THE BOOK 101 Publications That Shaped The City and Its Image, 30 ]

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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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Bookseller
Thomas J. Joyce And Company US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
2020272
Title
TWENTY YEARS AT HULL HOUSE
Author
ADDAMS, Jane
Illustrator
Norah Hamilton
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First printing
Publisher
Macmillan
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1910
Keywords
Lincoln, Jane Addams, Nobel Prize, Lewis W. Hine, Norah Hamilton, settlement houses, Chicago, social work, Tolstoy, Russia, alice kellogg tyler
Bookseller catalogs
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women;

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Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.

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