General:

• Deegan, Mary Jo. "W.E.B. Du Bois and the Women of Hull-House, 1895-1899." American Sociologist 19, no. 4 (Winter 1988): 301-10.
  
  
• Fitzpatrick, Ellen F. Endless Crusade: Women Social Scientists and Progressive Reform. New York: Oxford, 1990.
  
  
• James, Edward T. et al., eds. Notable American Women 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary. 3 vols. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Belknap Press, 1974. Contains biographical entries on: Jane Addams, Grace Abbott, Sophonisba Breckinridge, Florence Kelley, Julia Lathrop, Mary McDowell, and Ellen Gates Starr.
  
  
• Muncy, Robyn. Creating A Female Dominion in American Reform 1890-1935. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
  
  
• Schultz, Rima Lunin, and Adele Hast, eds. Women Building Chicago 1790-1990: A Biographical Dictionary. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. Contains biographical entries on residents, workers, major donors, and trustees: Edith Abbott, Grace Abbott, Jane Addams, Ruth Austin, Enella Benedict, Jessie Binford, Louise deKoven Bowen, Neva Boyd, Sophonisba Breckinridge, Helen Culver, Cornelia De Bey, Rose Marie Gyles, Alice Hamilton, Ellen M. Henrotin, Josepha Humpal-Zeman, Anna Wilmarth Ickes, Florence Kelley, Mary Kenney, Esther Loeb Kohn, Julia Lathrop, Mary McDowell, Edith de Nancrede, Anna E. Nicholes, Laura Dainty Pelham, Hilda Polachek, Alice Whiting Putnam, Harriet Rice, Adena Miller Rice, Adena Miller Rich, Madeleine Wallin Sikes, Eleanor Slagle, Eleanor Smith, Mary Roset Smith, Ellen Gates Starr, Alizina Stevens, Sarah Hackett Stevenson, Alice Kellogg Tyler, Mary J. H. Wilmarth, Edith F. Wyatt, Rachelle Yarros.
  
  
• Sicherman, Barbara et al., ed. Notable American Women: The Modern Period. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Belknap Press, 1980. Contains biographical entry on: Alice Hamilton.
  
  
• Sklar, Kathryn Kish. "Hull House in the 1890s: A Community of Women Reformers." Signs 10 (Summer 1985): 658-77.
  
  
• Stehno, Sandra M. "Public Responsibility for Dependant Black Children: The Advocacy of Edith Abbott and Sophonisba Breckinridge." Social Service Review 62 (September 1988): 485-503.
  
  
• Wright, Helen R. "Three Against Time: Edith and Grace Abbott and Sophonisba P. Breckinridge." Social Service Review 28 (March 1954): 41-53.
  
  
• Women and Social Movements in the United States: 1775-2000: http://womhist.binghamton.edu/
  
  
• http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAhullhouse.htm
  

Grace and Edith Abbott:

• Abbott, Edith. "Grace Abbott and Hull House, 1908-21." Social Service Review 24 (September 1950): 374-94.
  
  
• Costin, Lela B. "Edith Abbott and the Chicago Influence on Social Work Education." Social Service Review 57 (March 1983): 94-111.
  
  
• Costin, Lela B. Two Sisters for Social Justice: A Biography of Grace and Edith Abbott. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983. Reprint. Urbana: Universtity of Illinois Press, 2003.
  
  
• Costin, Lela B. "Women and Physicians: The 1930 White House Conference on Children." Social Work 28 (March/April 1983): 108-14.
  

Louise deKoven Bowen:

• Bowen, Louise deKoven. Growing Up With a City. 1926. Reprint. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002.
  
  
• Bowen, Louise deKoven. Open Windows: Stories of People and Places. Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, 1946.

Sophonisba Breckinridge:

• Abbott, Edith. "Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge Over the Years." Social Service Review 22 (December 1948): 417-23.
  
  
• Klotter, James. The Breckinridges of Kentucky, 1760-1981. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1986.

Alice Hamilton:

• Hamilton, Alice. Exploring the Dangerous Trades: The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton. 1943. Reprint. With introduction by Jean Spencer Felton, M.D. Beverly, MA: OEM Press, 1995.
  
  
• Sicherman, Barbara, ed. Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984. Reprint. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003.
  
  
• Sicherman, Barbara. "Gender, Professionalism and Reform in the Career of Alice Hamilton." In Women in the Progressive Era. Edited by, Noralee Frankel and Nancy Schrom Dye. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1990.
  
  
• http://center.acs.org/landmarks/landmarks/hamilton/index.html/

Florence Kelley:

• Blumberg, Dorothy Rose. Florence Kelley: The Making of a Social Pioneer. New York: Augustus Kelley, 1966.
  
  
• Goldmark, Josephine. Impatient Crusader: Florence Kelley's Life Story. 1953. Reprint. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1976.
  
  
• Perkins, Frances. "My Recollections of Florence Kelley." Social Service Review 28 (March 1954): 12-19.
  
  
• Sklar, Kathryn Kish. Florence Kelly and the Nations Work: The Rise of Women’s Political Culture, 1830-1900. New Haven and London. Yale University Press, 1995.
  
  
• Sklar, Kathryn Kish, ed. The Autobiography of Florence Kelley: Notes of Sixty Years. First Person Series, no. 1. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Publishing Co., 1986.
  

Julia Lathrop:

• Abbott, Edith. "Julia Lathrop." Social Service Review 6 (September 1932): 336.
  
  
• Addams, Jane. My Friend, Julia Lathrop. New York: Macmillan Co., 1935.
  
  
• Addams, Jane. "A Great Public Servant, Julia C. Lathrop." Social Service Review 6 (June 1932): 280-85.
  
  
• "Julia Lathrop and the Public Social Services." Social Service Review 6 (June 1932): 301-06.
  
  
• Parker, Jacqueline K., and Edward M. Carpenter. "Julia Lathrop and the Children's Bureau: The Emergence of an Institution." Social Service Review 55 (May 1981): 60-77.
  

To learn more about Jane Addams and Hull-House:
Biography of Jane Addams
Chronology of Jane Addams's Life
Near West Side Neighborhood Chronology