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The Selected Papers of Jane Addams: Vol. 2: Venturing into Usefulness
Jane Addams
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Hardback. Documenting a transitional period in the life of the preeminent American social activist and writer Editor(s): Bryan, Mary Lynn; Bair, Barbara; Angury, Maree de. Series: Selected Papers of Jane Addams. Num Pages: 808 pages, 67 photographs; 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BJ; JKS. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 244 x 166 x 50. Weight in Grams: 1290.
Venturing into Usefulness, the second volume of The Selected Papers of Jane Addams, documents the experience of this major American historical figure, intellectual, social activist, and author between June 1881, when at twenty-one she had just graduated from Rockford Female Seminary, and early 1889, when she was on the verge of founding the Hull-House settlement with Ellen Gates Starr. During these years she was developing into the social reformer and advocate of women's rights, socioeconomic justice, and world peace she would eventually become. She evolved from a high-minded but inexperienced graduate of a women's seminary into an educated woman and ... Read more
Venturing into Usefulness, the second volume of The Selected Papers of Jane Addams, documents the experience of this major American historical figure, intellectual, social activist, and author between June 1881, when at twenty-one she had just graduated from Rockford Female Seminary, and early 1889, when she was on the verge of founding the Hull-House settlement with Ellen Gates Starr. During these years she was developing into the social reformer and advocate of women's rights, socioeconomic justice, and world peace she would eventually become. She evolved from a high-minded but inexperienced graduate of a women's seminary into an educated woman and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
808
Condition
New
Series
Selected Papers of Jane Addams
Number of Pages
808
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252033490
SKU
V9780252033490
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About Jane Addams
Mary Lynn McCree Bryan is the editor of The Jane Addams Papers Project in the department of history at Duke University, editor of the microfilm edition of the Jane Addams Papers, a coeditor of The Jane Addams Papers: A Comprehensive Guide, and a former curator of the Jane Addams Hull-House at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Barbara Bair is ... Read more
Reviews for The Selected Papers of Jane Addams: Vol. 2: Venturing into Usefulness
"The papers are wisely chosen and elegantly arranged in an engaging narrative that will captivate and satisfy readers and scholars."
Journal of Illinois History "The biographical essays are engaging and accessible; the documents themselves are full of interest. Those who wish to delve into the endnotes' thickets of detail will be richly rewarded with concrete information and with leads for further ... Read more
Journal of Illinois History "The biographical essays are engaging and accessible; the documents themselves are full of interest. Those who wish to delve into the endnotes' thickets of detail will be richly rewarded with concrete information and with leads for further ... Read more