SOURCE: A review of Twenty Years at Hull-House, in The Sociological Review, Vol. IV, 1911, pp. 153-54.

The following essay appraises Twenty Years at Hull-House as not just a personal account of one life, but of a time and place.

[Twenty Years at Hull-House is] a book which is assured of a place among the noblest life records of the time.… It is not formally autobiographic in method, but Miss Addams has the rare faculty of stating or implying the essential personal facts, in the fewest possible words, during the process of describing the experiences which led her to follow a certain course of public action, or showing the relation in which Hull House has stood to the political and economic forces of the past two decades. It is a wonderful and deeply moving record, the power and inspiration of which no reviewer can hope to reproduce.

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