Hull-House Museum poses the question `Was Jane Addams a Lesbian?'.

From: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) | Date: February 13, 2007 | Copyright information

Byline: Nara Schoenberg

CHICAGO _ 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 "marrie...

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