JANE ADDAMS A BIOGRAPHY By JAMES WEBER LINN ILLUSTRATED D.
APPLETON-CENTURY COMPANY INCORPORATED NEW YORK 1935 LONDON j KAnm h
MM i i PREFACE npHIS book is intended to be not so much an
interpre-JL tation of Jane Addams as the story of her life. She has
interpreted herself not only throughout her books but particularly
in a single sentence written only a few years ago, in 1929 The
modern world is developing an almost mystic sense of the continuity
and interdependence of mankind how can we make this consciousness
the unique contribution of our time to the small handful of
incentives which really motivate human conduct As the story of Jane
Addamss life, this book is au thoritative to this extent Before my
aunt died, she turned over to me all files of her own manuscripts,
pub lished and unpublished all letters, records, and clippings
which she had preserved, from her first valentine to her last
round-the-world speech in Washington on May x, 1935, Do what you
like with them, she said- I have left them to you in my will My own
personal acquaint ance with her, or hers with me, perhaps I should
say, lasted almost sixty years It is to be hoped that some day some
scholar, completely acquainted with the history of the development
of sociology and of American civilization in the last half-century,
will offer a picture of it as illu minated by her life, for I think
she threw more light into its dark places than any one else, But
for her personal history I had all available information. My aunt
read over and annotated the first draft of the first eight chap vil
viii PREFACE ters of this book, talked over the next three, and
agreed upon the proportion of the remainder. I realize now that as
we talkedthings over, neither she nor I saw her in perspec tive.
Neither of us had any just conception of the view the world seems
to have had of her importance to it. In the preparation of the book
I have specifically to thank my daughter Elizabeth Allen for her
help in ex amining the great mass of personal records the Mac
millan Company for permission to use many extracts from Miss
Addamss published works and many old friends of hers, in particular
Mrs Catherine Waugh McCulloch, Doctor Alice Hamilton, and Miss
Ellen Gates Starr, for facts, suggestions, and comments that have
proved in valuable. JAMES WEBER LINN PREFACE CONTENTS PAGE CHAPTER
I. JANE ADDAMSS FATHER ..... i II. A DIFFERENT CHILD ..... 22 III.
ROCKFORD COLLEGE ...... 40 IV. WHAT SHALL SHE Do ..... 65 V. SHE
FINDS A WAY ....... 91 VI. HULL HOUSE BEGINS ...... no VII. Six
WOMEN ....... 129 VIII. ETHICS IN POLITICS .... 151 IX. WORK FOR
CHILDREN ...... 178 X. GROWTH ... .... 190 XI. WIDENING INFLUENCES
. ... 209 XII. A DECADE OF WRITING .... 242 XIII SUFFRAGE AND
PROGRESSIVISM . ., 262 XIV, PACIFISM ........ 284 XV. CONTINUOUS
MEDIATION ... 300 XVI. STANDING ALONE . ..... 312 XVII. THE
CONGRESS OF WOMEN . . . .335 XVIII. POST-WAR REFLECTIONS ..... 3S 2
XIX. THEY COME TO PRAISE .... 369 XX. QUIET YEARS ....... 395 XXI.
SHE GOES IN PEACE ...... 410 XXII IN RETROSPECT ...... 429 INDEX
...... 44 1 IX ILLUSTRATIONS Jane Addams at seventy Frontispiece
FACING PAGE The Addams home at Cedarville, Illinois 16 The Addams
mills at Cedarville, Illinois 16 Jane Addams at four 24 Jane Addams
at six 24 John H. Addams 32 Jane Addams at sixteen 32 Jane Addams
as an undergraduate at Rockford College, 1880 48 Jane Addams in
London, 1888 48 The originalCharles Hull homestead 94 Hull House as
it is to-day 94 Hull House founders Ellen Gates Starr, Jane Addams,
Julia Lathrop, Florence Kelley 116 Hull House friends Dr, Alice
Hamilton, Mary Rozet Smith, Mrs. Joseph T. Bowen, Jane Addams . .
148 Jane Addams with her little friends at Hull House . ...
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