Lillian D. Wald, Progressive ActivistThis volume includes Clare Coss's play Lillian Wald: At Home on Henry Street , which is closely based on Wald's writings and actual events in her life as well as speeches, letters, and leaflets by Wald herself-"a carefully balanced selection, highlighting Wald's antiwar activities and her deep concern for the rights of labor"- Annette T. Rubinstein, Science and Society . The one-character play conveys the personal moments that made Wald's public contributions a lasting mandate for social change. Coss's introduction and notes on the documents place them and the events of the play in the context of the times and of Wald's life and work. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Lillian Wald At Home on Henry Street | 17 |
Writing the Play | 19 |
At Home on Henry Street | 23 |
Letters and Speeches of Lillian D Wald | 41 |
Letters | 43 |
Ullian Wald to Sylvia Pankhurst 1912 | 45 |
Jacob Schiff to Lillian Wald 1914 | 46 |
Lavinia Dock to Lillian Wald 1931 | 54 |
Speeches | 57 |
Best Helps to the Immigrant Through the Nurse 1907 | 65 |
Address to the House Committee Hearing on Establishing a Federal Childrens Bureau 1909 | 67 |
Address to a Meeting under the Auspices of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People at Cooper Union 1914 | 71 |
Suffrage 1914 | 74 |
New Aspects of Old Social Responsibilities 1915 | 76 |
Address to the Womens Peace March Organizing Committee 1914 | 84 |
Lillian Wald to Jacob Schiff 1915 | 48 |
Lillian Wald to Jane Addams 1915 | 50 |
Lillian Wald to John Haynes Holmes 1916 | 51 |
J Horace Harding to Lillian Wald 1917 | 53 |
Women and War 1915 | 86 |
Address to the Womans Peace Party 1916 | 89 |
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