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Jane Addams: Pioneer for Social Justice For Further Reference

Addams, Jane. Forty Years at HullHouse. New York: Macmillan, 1935.

Issued shortly after Addams's death, this work combines into one volume the two volumes of Addams's famous autobiography: Twenty Years at HullHouse (1910) and Second Twenty Years at Hull-House (1929). The work contains personal reminiscences and recounts Addams's experiences involving the settlement house and social issues.

Carpenter, Humphrey and Mari Prichard. "Meigs, Cornelia Lynde." In The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. A brief biographical entry.

Davis, Allen F. American Heroine: The Life and Legend of Jane Addams. New York: Oxford University Press, 1973.

An "intellectual biography" that attempts to "explore the legend of Jane Addams, but also to relate the legend to the facts of her life and to show how the two became intertwined."

Jane Addams. Famous Women of America Series. Chicago: Society...
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