| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.4

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Book Review

The Education of Jane Addams. By Victoria Bissell Brown. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. viii, 421 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8122-3747-1.)
Victoria Bissell Brown has written an excellent biography of the young Jane Addams. Focused on the years between Addams's birth in 1860 and her emergence as the most widely acclaimed leader of the social settlement movement in the United States in the mid-1890s, The Education of Jane Addams provides a detailed, wonderfully complex analysis of Addams's ideas, life, and work.	1
Brown focuses on identifying several key concepts that she believes are critical for understanding the work and life of the mature, better-known Addams. First, she argues that Addams developed her commitment to impartial mediation because of her experiences negotiating the conflicts that characterized her family life. Through a close analysis of family correspondence, Brown shows the shifting alliances within the family, the strains posed by physical and mental illnesses, and the attempts her stepmother made to control Addams. Addams was paralyzed less by neurasthenia, Brown argues, than by societal and familial expectations of Addams as the unmarried daughter. Those familial claims were ultimately useful, however, because they taught Addams the ability to mediate among conflicting forces and to recognize good in all parties.	. . .

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