Neighbor to the World (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Irvin Block
- First Published: 1969
- Time of Work: 1867–1938
- Setting: New York City
- Principal Characters: Lillian Wald, Minnie Wald, Mary Brewster, Lavinia Dock, Elizabeth Farrell, Florence Kelley, Helen McDowell, Alice and Irene Lewisohn
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Child rearing or parenting, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Social reform, New York City, Social work, Poverty or poor people, Immigration or emigration, Health, Nursing or nurses, Biography, Housing
- Locales: New York, NY
Form and Content
Based largely on Lillian Wald’s The House on Henry Street (1915) and Windows on Henry Street (1934), as well as on her notes, letters, and speeches collected at the New York Public Library, Irvin Block’s Neighbor to the World is less an in-depth biography than a documentary account of the lower East Side of New York City and the Henry Street Settlement House that Wald and her colleagues founded to help the poor of the area. The opening chapter, “The Day It All Began,” recalls a day in March, 1893, when Wald, at that time a nurse...
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