Jane Addams, ca 1920-1930Works 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.
  • 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.

  • Linn, James Weber. Jane Addams: A Biography. 1935. Reprint. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000.
  • 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

 

 

Pictured above: Jane Addams ca. 1920-1930. University of Illinois at Chicago, The University Library, Jane Addams Memorial Collection, JAMC neg. 32