Her second trip was in 1887 and it was during this journey that she met up with her friend and former classmate Ellen Starr. In August of 1883, Addams left for her first tour of Europe, where she traveled until June of 1885. She had a deep love for children, as reflected in her writings and lectures. This, according to James Linn, her nephew and biographer, was her greatest grief. In 1882, after an operation on her spine, she was told that she could never have a child. After a few months, however, she quit, possibly due to illness. Jane attended Rockford Female Seminary and, after her father's death in 1881, enrolled in the Women's Medical College of Philadelphia. Later in his life he was elected a state senator, as a staunch supporter of Abraham Lincoln, who would become a role-model for Jane in her early years. Among John Addam's accomplishments, he helped to organize the first church and school in their home town and ran the first town library out of their house. He was a prosperous sawmill owner in rural Illinois and was concerned with public interest issues. Her father, JohnAddams, was a major influence in her life. Her mother died during childbirth when Jane was two and a half.
She was a natural leader, and, in spite of her frequent illnesses, she was at the forefront of the struggles for women's suffrage, immigrant education, health care, children's rights, housing, peace and progressive education.īorn in 1860, Jane was the eighth child of nine. Prior to the beginning of World War I, Addams devoted most of her time to the Hull-House, a Chicago settlement house and educational center that attracted countless numbers of poor immigrants, and to political activities aimed at abolishing childlabor. During the war, she was attacked as unpatriotic and demonized as an advocate of socialism and communism. Described at that ceremony as a spokesperson for all peace-loving women of the world, Addams had been actively engaged in the peace movement since 1914. The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT)ġ931 Jane Addams, founder of Hull-House, is awarded the Nobel Peace PrizeĪt age 71, Jane Addams (1860-1935) became the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, an honor which she shared with Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University.
History of Education Selected Moments of the 20th CenturyĪ work in progress edited by Daniel Schugurenskyĭepartment of Adult Education, Community Development and Counselling Psychology,
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