The Selected Papers of Jane Addams: vol. 1: Preparing to Lead, 1860-81

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Mary Lynn Bryan, Barbara Bair, Maree de Angury, Jane Addams
University of Illinois Press, 1 Οκτ 2010 - 704 σελίδες
Filling a void in Jane Addams scholarship, this first volume of The Selected Papers of Jane Addams collects extant documents from the formative years of the major American historical figure, intellectual, social activist, and author. Documenting the early development of Addams's social principles, the documents reveal the leadership skills that led her into a life of public commitment.

For all her public compassion and visibility as an outspoken pacifist, Progressive reformer, and founder of Hull-House, Addams was an intensely private person who revealed her personal side only to family and close friends. Drawing on letters, diaries, and other writings from her childhood in Cedarville, Illinois, and her education at the Rockford Female Seminary, this volume provides heretofore unavailable insight into her developing ideas, educational experiences, and personal relationships.

More than just biographical records, The Selected Papers of Jane Addams defines the era in which Addams lived. Unique yet representative of the spiritual ideals and political sensibilities of post-Civil War women and society, Addams's lesser-known, personal writings are necessary reading for scholars and historians. The volume explores important themes, including the migration of families westward, the first generation of college women, and the religious and domestic lives of nineteenth-century Americans. The editors' rich annotation of individuals and events featured in the documents and appendix of biographical profiles represent a trove of primary research and place the documents in historical context.

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Σελίδα 228 - Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore. Not the least obeisance made he ; not...
Σελίδα 289 - STRONG Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove; Thine are these orbs of light and shade; Thou madest Life in man and brute ; Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made. Thou wilt not leave us in the dust: Thou madest man, he knows not why, He thinks he was not made to die; And thou hast made him: thou art just.
Σελίδα 197 - History of New York, from the beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty.
Σελίδα 277 - The very wish and curiosity indicates that you, then and there, are the person likely to get good of it. ' Our wishes are presentiments of our capabilities; ' that is a noble saying, of deep encouragement to all true men; applicable to our wishes and efforts in regard to reading as to other things. Among all the objects that look wonderful or beautiful to you, follow with fresh hope the one which looks wonderfullest, beautifullest.
Σελίδα 285 - It is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's Heaven as a god-made Man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest daydrudge kindles into a hero.
Σελίδα 272 - ... so seldom, and can almost never be, rightly given. No man knows the state of another; it is always to some more or less imaginary man that the wisest and most honest adviser is speaking. As to the books which you, whom I know so little of, should read, there is hardly anything definite that can be said. For one thing, you may be strenuously advised to keep reading. Any good book, any book that is wiser than yourself, will teach you something—a great many things, indirectly and directly, if...

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Mary Lynn McCree Bryan, editor of the Jane Addams Papers in the Department of History at Duke University, led the team of editors that produced The Jane Addams Papers: A Comprehensive Guide. She is also coeditor, with Allen F. Davis, of 100 Years at Hull-House and former curator of the Jane Addams Hull-House at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Barbara Bair is associate editor of the Jane Addams Papers in the Department of History at Duke University and a historian in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. A longtime documentary editor and specialist in social movements, she is the author of Though Justice Sleeps: African Americans, 1880-1900 and an editor of the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers. Maree de Angury has worked on the Jane Addams Papers Project for more than a decade and is a member of the editorial team that produced The Jane Addams Papers: A Comprehensive Guide.

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