I Came a Stranger: The Story of a Hull-House Girl (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History) - Softcover

Polacheck, Hilda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252062183 ISBN 13: 9780252062186

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1991

Synopsis

Hilda Satt Polacheck's family emigrated from Poland to Chicago in 1892, bringing their old-world Jewish traditions with them into the Industrial Age. Throughout her career as a writer and activist, Polacheck (1882-1967) never forgot the immigrant neighborhoods, the markets, and the scents and sounds of Chicago's West Side. Here, in charming and colorful prose, she recounts her introduction to American life and the Hull-House community, her friendship with Jane Addams, her marriage, her support of civil rights, woman suffrage, and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and her experiences as a writer for the WPA.

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From the Back Cover:

Here, in charming and colorful prose, she recounts her introduction to American life and the Hull-House community, her friendship with Jane Addams, her marriage, her support of civil rights, woman suffrage, and the Women's International league for Peace and Freedom, and her experiences as a writer for the WPA.

About the Author:

Dena J. Polacheck Epstein is the author of Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War.Lynn Y. Weiner is the author of From Working Girl to Working Mother: The Female Labor Force in the United States, 1820-1980.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0252062183
• ISBN 13: 9780252062186
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288