The Education of Jane Addams

by Victoria Bissell Brown

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081221952X
• ISBN13: 9780812219524
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 19 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary