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James Weber Linn was an American and professor at the University of Chicago. His books include "Sesame and Lilies" and "The Essentials of English Composition."

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone

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 . ...