Outing Jane Addams: Was the founder of Hull House a lesbian? And does it matter?

Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) | February 6, 2007 | Copyright

Byline: Nara Schoenberg

Feb. 6--The portrait hanging above a marble fireplace at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum shows a calm and self-possessed young woman in a billowing lemon chiffon dress, a soft summer sky behind her, a faraway look in her eyes. Was she a dear friend and key financial supporter of pioneering social reformer Jane Addams? Would it be more accurate to say that the woman in yellow, Chicago heiress Mary Rozet Smith, was "married" to Addams for more than 30 years? Were the two women lovers? Such questions, long intriguing to Addams ...

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