Works
about Jane Addams
Books about Jane
Addams:
- Bryan, Mary Lynn McCree. The Selected Papers of Jane Addams, Volume 1, Preparing to Lead, 1860-81. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2003.
- Davis,
Allen F. American Heroine: The Life and Legend of Jane Addams.
London: Oxford University Press, 1973.
- Deegan,
Mary Jo. Jane Addams and the Men of the Chicago School, 1892-1918.
New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1988.
- Diliberto,
Gioia. A Useful Woman: The Early Life of Jane Addams. New
York, NY: Scribner, 1999.
- Elshtain,
Jean Bethke. Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy.
New York, NY: Basic Books, 2001.
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Farrell, John C. Beloved Lady: A History of Jane Addams' Ideas
on Reform and Peace. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,
1967.
- Joslin,
Katherine. Jane Addams, A Writer's Life. Urbana: University
of Illinois Press, 2004.
- Knight, Louise W. Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.
- Levine,
Daniel. Jane Addams and the Liberal Tradition. Madison:
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1971.
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Linn, James Weber. Jane Addams: A Biography. 1935. Reprint.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000.
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Polikoff, Barbara Garland. With One Bold Act: The Story of
Jane Addams. Chicago: Boswell Books, 1999.
Articles
about Jane Addams:
- Brown, Victoria. "Jane Addams."
In Women Building Chicago, 1790-1990: A Biographical Dictionary.
Edited by Rima Lunin Schultz and Adele Hast. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 2001.
- Cook,
Blanche Wiesen. "Female Support Networks and Political Activism:
Lillian Wald, Crystal Eastman, Emma Goldman." In A Heritage
of Her Own: Toward A New Social History of American Women. Edited
by Nancy F. Cott and Elizabeth H. Pleck. New York: Simon and Schuster,
1979.
- Lasch, Christopher. "Jane Addams: The College Woman and the
Family Claim." In The New Radicalism in America (1889-1963):
The Intellectual as a Social Type, 3-37. New York: Alfred A.
Knopf, 1966.
- Seigfried,
Charlene Haddock. Introduction to Democracy and Social Ethics
by Jane Addams. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000.
To learn
more about Jane Addams and Hull-House:
Biography of Jane Addams
Chronology of Jane Addams's Life
Near West Side Neighborhood Chronology
Suggestions
for additional reading:
Works by Jane Addams
Works about Jane Addams For Young Readers
Works about Hull-House
Works about the Women of Hull-House
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