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Online editions of Jane Addams' works on social work, settlement houses, social conditions, sociology.
The Subtle Problems of Charity
Page images - article by Jane Addams, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 83, Issue 496, February 1899.
Twenty Years at Hull-House
HTML version of Jane Addams' best-known writing. From the Celebration of Women Writers site.
Women and Public Housekeeping
1913 Jane Addams essay on the city as 'enlarged housekeeping" and the essential role of women in its future.
The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements
Addams' lecture from 1892, later a chapter in "Twenty Years at Hull House," on the benefits to settlement workers.

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