Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 - May 21, 1935) won the Nobel Peace Prize and was a founder of the U.S. Settlement House Movement. Born in Cedarville, Illinois, Jane Addams was the eighth of nine children born into a prosperous miller family. She was first cousin twice removed to Charles Addams, noted macabre cartoonist for The New Yorker. Addams was educated in the United States and Europe, graduating from the Rockford Female Seminary (now Rockford College) in Rockford, … Wikipedia
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...Online Books by Jane Addams (Addams, Jane, 1860-1935) Addams, Jane, 1860-1935: Democracy and Social Ethics (New York: Macmillan, 1902) page images at Harvard Gutenberg text Addams, ... onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/search?author=A...
Although Addams and Smith lived at a time when lesbian identity was still being shaped, they clearly understood themselves as forming a married couple. www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/addams_j,2.html