Jane Addams speaks to visitors at Hull House, 1935. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jane_addams._Movimiento_Settlement.jpg
Midland Authors Women’s History Month Program
Jane Addams for All Ages
- WHEN: Tuesday, March 11, 2025, 6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m. (Doors open at 6:30pm, program begins at 7pm.)
- WHERE: University of Illinois Library, 801 S. Morgan
- COST: Free and open to all.
Our panel will discuss how Jane Addams, Hull House cofounder, served so many with her grit and bravery, and why authors of children’s and adult books are drawn to her story.
Carron Little, moderator. Carron Little is the Executive Director of the Chicago Women’s History Center and works with the International Feminist Art Collective outofsite_chi, dedicated to public performance art practices. She is the convener of Chicago Women’s History Conference, working in partnership with Black Metropolis Research Consortium, Evanston History Center, and the Women & Leadership Archives at Loyola University Chicago.The March conference theme is Past & Present Strategies to Advance the Rights of Women. Peace and justice is at the heart of Carron’s research and writing as a feminist artist organizer.
Louise W. Knight, an Evanstonian, is a biographer and historian. The first of her two biographies of Jane Addams is Citizen: Jane Addams and the struggle for Democracy (U of C Press), which covers in-depth her first ten years at Hull House. The second biography, Jane Addams: Spirit in Action (W.W.Norton), is the first full-life biography of Addams in forty years. See www.louisewknight.com.
Marlene Targ Brill, SMA board member, is an award-winning author of more than seventy books for readers of all ages. She’s been a huge fan of Jane Addams since childhood and when she started writing. Her recently published book, for middle graders and up, is Jane Addams: The Most Dangerous Woman in America. See marlenetargbrill.com.
To learn more, contact Marlene Targ Brill: [email protected].