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- ISSN: 0360-9170
- E-ISSN: 1943-2402
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Profiles and Perspectives: Jane Addams, Stories, and Imagination
- Source: Language Arts, Volume 86, Issue 4, Mar 2009, p. 302 - 310
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- 01 Mar 2009
Abstract
Early twentieth-century social activist Jane Addams is best known for her work at Hull House, the settlement house she founded with Ellen Gates Starr in 1889. Addams was also a pacifist, storyteller, writer, and philosopher. Through her actions, stories, and writing, Addams modeled a philosophy of democracy-in-action based in imagination and sympathetic understanding.
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