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Twenty Years at Hull House (World Digital Library Edition)

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For two years Jane Addams could not shake a startling scene she had stumbled upon while in East London. In 1883 she had seen people so poor they were desperately trying to outbid each other for rotten vegetables. Remembering the “myriads of hands, empty, pathetic, nerveless, and workworn, showing white in the uncertain light of the street, and clutching forward for food which was already unfit to eat,” she set out to establish a settlement house, based on one she had seen in England, that would alleviate the suffering of her fellow man in the United States. This work recollects how Addams and her friend Ellen Starr turned a rundown mansion in Chicago’s industrial district into a "center for a higher civic and social life.”

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Publisher: Barnes & Noble World Digital Library

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  • Release date: April 2, 2003

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  • ISBN: 0594097452
  • Release date: April 2, 2003

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  • ISBN: 0594097452
  • File size: 5581 KB
  • Release date: April 2, 2003

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History Nonfiction

Languages

English

For two years Jane Addams could not shake a startling scene she had stumbled upon while in East London. In 1883 she had seen people so poor they were desperately trying to outbid each other for rotten vegetables. Remembering the “myriads of hands, empty, pathetic, nerveless, and workworn, showing white in the uncertain light of the street, and clutching forward for food which was already unfit to eat,” she set out to establish a settlement house, based on one she had seen in England, that would alleviate the suffering of her fellow man in the United States. This work recollects how Addams and her friend Ellen Starr turned a rundown mansion in Chicago’s industrial district into a "center for a higher civic and social life.”

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