The Education of Jane Addams

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title

The Education of Jane Addams traces, with unprecedented care, Addams's three-decade journey from a privileged prairie girlhood through her years as the competent spinster daughter in a demanding family after her father's death to her early seasoning on the Chicago reform scene. It weaves her spiritual struggles with Christianity into her political struggles with elitism and her emotional struggles with intimacy. Finally, it reveals the logic of her journey to Chicago and makes biographical sense of the political and personal choices she made once she arrived there. The founder of Chicago's Hull-House and, later, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom is portrayed here as a complicated young woman who summoned the energy to pursue public life, the honesty to admit her own arrogance, and the imagination to see joy in collective endeavor.

Author: Victoria Bissell Brown
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 01/30/2007
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780812219524

Review Citation(s):
Univ PR Books for Public Libry 01/01/2007 pg. 1 - Strongly Recommended

About the Author
Victoria Bissell Brown is Associate Professor of History at Grinnell College.