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Anne Firor Scott


Anne Firor Scott, a former lecturer in history at the University of North Carolina, is at work on a biography of Jane Addams. She is currently in Italy, where her husband is a Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Bologna.
For further reading: Twenty Years at Hull-House , by Jane Addams (Macmillan, 1959); Altgeld’s America , by Ray Ginger (Funk & Wagnalls, 1958); A Centennial Reader , edited by Emily Cooper Johnson (Macmillan, 1960); Jane Addams , by James W. Linn (Appleton-Century, 1935); Lords of the Levee , by Lloyd Wendt and Herman Kogan (Bobbs-Merrill, 1943).

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When Jane Addams opened Hull House for Chicago’s immigrants, she began asking questions a local politician preferred not to answer

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