Publisher's Synopsis
Jane Addams writes of our great Protean mother, race memory, in "The Long Road of Woman's Memory," a volume that draws conclusions from the experiences related to her by different types of women who came to Hull House for personal aid and in many instances to investigate the myth of the "Devil Baby," said to have been born there. She sees clearly a thing that only thoughtful women attempt to understand, that race memory holds the essential unity of man's age-long spiritual effort, and that in this memory is the power that guards the finest achievements of the present, and safeguards future generations. The phenomena of tribal loyalty and woman's "deepest instinct," that the child in her body must be made to live, have impressed Miss Addams with peculiar force as viewed against the background of her life work and unusual opportunities for observation. She completes a fine, thoughtful, and suggestive work with a chapter on her own personal interpretative memory.
-The American Review of Reviews, Volume 55
