# Twenty Years at Hull House — Character guide

> Key figures in Twenty Years at Hull House by Jane Addams.

- [Jane Addams](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_at_hull_house_se/characters/jane_addams.md): Addams narrates her own becoming: a village childhood strung on her father's moral influence, a first sight of squalid poverty beside the mill, and a dread of death that drove her downstairs to confess. That same uneasy 
- [Count Tolstoy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_at_hull_house_se/characters/tolstoy.md): Tolstoy hovers over Hull House as an absent conscience rather than a character, invoked whenever Addams weighs her own comfort against her convictions. His demand that the privileged share the life of the poor gives her 
- [Abraham Lincoln](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_at_hull_house_se/characters/lincoln.md): Lincoln enters the memoir not as statesman but as family grief: black-draped flags, a father in tears, a child's baptism into public life. Around his memory cluster the Addams' Guard roster, the one-armed colonel's pictu
- [Miss Starr](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_at_hull_house_se/characters/miss_starr.md): Ellen Gates Starr is the friend with whom Addams dares the whole Hull House experiment, and her particular passion is art as a form of welcome. Her loan collection of photographs grows into the Public School Art Society,
- [Thomas Davidson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_at_hull_house_se/characters/tommy_davidson.md): Philosopher and educator who inspired Addams's early intellectual pursuits.
- [Marcella](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_at_hull_house_se/characters/marcella.md): A young girl at Hull House whose story illustrates immigrant struggles.
- [De Quincey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_at_hull_house_se/characters/de_quincey.md): English writer referenced in discussions of literature and addiction.
- [Mrs. Moran](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_at_hull_house_se/characters/mrs_moran.md): A neighbor and early contact in the Hull House community.
- [Mr. Stead](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_at_hull_house_se/characters/mr_stead.md): Journalist and reformer who collaborated with Addams on civic issues.
- [Joseph Mazzini](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_at_hull_house_se/characters/mazzini.md): Italian revolutionary whose writings on democracy influenced Addams.
- [Miss Eleanor Smith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_at_hull_house_se/characters/miss_smith.md): Music teacher and contributor to arts programs at Hull House.
- [President McKinley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_at_hull_house_se/characters/president_mckinley.md): U.S. President whose assassination is discussed in the context of social unrest.
- [Miss Norah Hamilton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_at_hull_house_se/characters/norah_hamilton.md): Artist and resident at Hull House who contributed to its cultural life.
- [Polly Keyser](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_at_hull_house_se/characters/polly_keyser.md): A friend or colleague involved in Hull House social clubs.
- [Jesus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_at_hull_house_se/characters/jesus.md): Central figure in Christian teachings referenced in Addams's moral reflections.
- [Mayor Dunne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_at_hull_house_se/characters/mayor_dunne.md): Chicago mayor who worked with Addams on labor and civic reforms.
- [Prince Kropotkin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_at_hull_house_se/characters/prince_kropotkin.md): Russian anarchist and thinker whose ideas on mutual aid were discussed.
- [Goosie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_at_hull_house_se/characters/goosie.md): A child or nickname character from the Hull House neighborhood.
- [Mr. Pullman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_at_hull_house_se/characters/mr_pullman.md): Industrialist whose company town and labor policies were critiqued.
- [John Hobson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_at_hull_house_se/characters/john_hobson.md): British economist and reformer who visited Hull House.
- [Evelyn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_at_hull_house_se/characters/evelyn.md): A young woman or child associated with Hull House stories.
- [Professor Blaisdell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_at_hull_house_se/characters/professor_blaisdell.md): Academic who lectured or participated in Hull House educational programs.
- [Walter Besant](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_at_hull_house_se/characters/walter_besant.md): British author and social reformer whose work influenced Addams.
- [Mr. Maude](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_at_hull_house_se/characters/mr_maude.md): Translator and correspondent of Tolstoy who visited Hull House.
- [Julia C. Lathrop](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_at_hull_house_se/characters/julia_lathrop.md): Lathrop begins as the resident assigned to investigate every case within ten blocks of Halsted Street, a job the county commissioners expected to produce a 'coal chute' of giveaways. Instead she learns the poor as neighb
- [Henry George](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_at_hull_house_se/characters/henry_george.md): Economist and author of 'Progress and Poverty,' debated at Hull House.
- [Florence Kelley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_at_hull_house_se/characters/florence_kelley.md): Kelley sees that impressions of suffering are not enough, so she persuades the State Bureau of Labor to investigate Chicago's sweating system and conducts the study herself. Her report reaches the legislature, a commissi
- [Dr. Graham Taylor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_at_hull_house_se/characters/graham_taylor.md): Social reformer and founder of Chicago Commons settlement house.
- [Luther](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_at_hull_house_se/characters/luther.md): Historical religious reformer referenced in discussions of social change.
- [Professor Masurek](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_at_hull_house_se/characters/professor_masurek.md): Academic who lectured on Slavic cultures at Hull House.
- [Dr. Alice Hamilton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_at_hull_house_se/characters/alice_hamilton.md): Dr. Hamilton belongs to the first generation of Hull House residents, one of the women who made the settlement a base for expert, unsentimental reform rather than charity. Her distinctive contribution is scientific: she 
- [John Dewey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_at_hull_house_se/characters/john_dewey.md): Philosopher and educator who collaborated with Hull House on progressive education.
- [Judas](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_at_hull_house_se/characters/judas.md): Biblical figure referenced in moral discussions at Hull House.

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