Jane Addams: A Biography - Rilegato

Berson, Robin Kadison

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ISBN 10: 0313323542 ISBN 13: 9780313323546

Casa editrice: Greenwood Pub Group, 2004

Riassunto

Jane Addams is best known as the founder of Hull-House, one of this country's first settlement houses, in the immigrant heart of late Victorian Chicago. This biography chronicles her privileged childhood in rural Illinois, her thirst for a first-class education, and her search for purpose and self-fulfillment, although constrained by notions of the proper role for females. It chronicles Addams' tireless work to better the lives of urban immigrants and her growing national and international role in social reform. The narrative of her family travails, deep friendships, reading, writing, travels, beliefs, and accolades and changing public perception of her causes is consummately woven with historical context of her times--from the Civil War Era to the Great Depression.

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L'autore

ROBIN K. BERSON is an independent scholar and director of the Upper School Library, Riverdale Country School, Bronx, New York.

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• Editore: Greenwood Pub Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0313323542
• ISBN 13: 9780313323546
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 152