Jane Addams Summary

Addams, Jane (b. September 6, 1860; d. May 21, 1935) Reformer, advocate for peace and social justice, lecturer, and writer. Jane Addams began her public career in 1889 as the co-founder and leader o... Read more

Addams, Jane (1860-1935) Born in Illinois, Jane Addams is remembered as an influential social activist and feminist icon; she was the most prominent member of a notable group of female social reformer... Read more

Addams, Jane Jane Addams (1860–1935) is remembered primarily as the feisty American founder of the Settlement House Movement, which sought to challenge the industrial and urban order of the per... Read more

As social worker, reformer, and pacifist, Jane Addams (1860-1935) was the "beloved lady" of American reform. She founded the most famous settlement house in American history, Hull House in Chicago.Jan... Read more

(Laura) Jane Addams was a social reformer and a pacifist, a woman ahead of her time in realizing that caring intervention may be the best crime deterrent. She is known as the founder of Hull House in ... Read more

In the following essay, Arbuthnot reviews Democracy and Social Ethics with a focus on its economic and political insights. Among the matters of particularly economic interest in Miss Addams'... Read more

In the following essay, Hecht reviews the history of the Hull-House Theatre, including political clashes over its administration. Chicago's Hull-House Theatre developed specifically to comba... Read more

In the following excerpt, Stroup presents Addams as a pioneer in developing the framework of social welfare in America. Jane Addams, the founder of famed Hull House, a pioneer in the settlement hou... Read more

In the following excerpt, Elshtain offers a critique of Addams's career from a feminist standpoint outside the traditional left-wing framework. From a standpoint of jaded modern sophisticati... Read more

In the following essay, which was first presented at a conference of the Norwegian Nobel Institute in 1992, Alonso compares and contrasts the career of Addams with that of another radical pacifist and... Read more

In the following essay, Schott contrasts the pacifism of William James with the much more radical anti-war views of Addams. On the evening of 7 October 1904, some 500 members of the Universal Peace... Read more

In the following essay, Sawaya compares the nonfiction portrayal of a household in Twenty Years at Hull-House with a fictional one in the work of Sarah Orne Jewett In her preface to the 1893 editio... Read more

In the following review of Twenty Years at Hull-House, Hall concentrates on the role models who instilled in Addams a spirit of selflessness. [Twenty Years at Hull-House] is invaluable as a human d... Read more

In the following essay, Dewey comments on the timely reissue of Peace and Bread at the end of World War II. The present republication of Peace and Bread is peculiarly timely. Some of the external r... Read more

In the following excerpt, Herman explores the path by which Addams moved from philanthropic works to pacifism. Cease to be the shadow of man and of his passion of pride and destruction. Have a cle... Read more

In the following essay, Phillips identifies Addams's intellectual forebears, a group that ranges from Abraham Lincoln to Auguste Comte. Perhaps as a final tribute to a nineteenth century ind... Read more