twenty years at hull house

ture, in The Greek Way (1930), Mythology (1942), and other books.

Alice Hamilton, another older sister, was a medical doctor and one of

the most active of the HulbHouse reformers, specializing in industrial

medicine and public health. A third sister, Margaret, taught at Bryn

Mawr School, and her younger brother, Arthur, was for many years an

immensely popular professor of romance languages at the University of

Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Norah Hamilton studied art in New

York and Europe, where she worked with James McNeill Whistler.

When she was twenty-seven years old, she suffered a severe breakdown in Europe and was hospitalized for some time in Switzerland.

Similar episodes recurred intermittently for the rest of her life. She

was, however, able to lead a fairly active life, illustrating several of

Jane Addams books and her sister Alices autobiography, Exploring the

Dangerous Trades (1943), and teaching art classes for underprivileged

children both at Hull-House and in New York.