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Twenty years at Hull House, with autobiographical notes, by Jane Addams ; with illustrations by Norah Hamilton

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autobiography

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non fiction

Twenty years at Hull House

by Jane Addams ; with illustrations by Norah Hamilton

with autobiographical notes

Twenty Years at Hull-House is Jane Addams's graphic account of her famed settlement house in Chicago's West Side slums. Covering the years 1889-1909, a time when America was fired with fear of subversives and suspicion of foreigners, this books stands as the immortal testament of a woman who lived and worked among the immigrant settlers, the sweat-shop toilers, the unwed mothers, the hungry, the aged, the sick, to show them in practice what others merely preached: the true concept of American democracy. -- Book jacket