Jane Addams
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Contents
Country
United States
Birth - Death
1860 - 1935
Occupation
Activist
Notable Achievements
Nobel Prize
Description
Social reformer, peace activist, and advocate for the poor and the immigrants. Established Hull House, first settlement house in America and located in Chicago. Notable intimate relationships include Ellen Gates Starr and Mary Rozett Smith, with whom she lived from 1900 to her death in 1934. Author of her autobiography, 'Twenty Years at Hull-House' (1910). Founder of the social work profession. First American woman to win the Nobel Prize, awarded in 1931. Member, Gay & Lesbian Hall of Fame.
