The Selected Papers of Jane AddamsVenturing into Usefulness, the second volume of The Selected Papers of Jane Addams, documents the experience of this major American historical figure, intellectual, social activist, and author between June 1881, when at twenty one she had just graduated from Rockford Female Seminary, and early 1889, when she was on the verge of founding the Hull House settlement with Ellen Gates Starr. During these years she was developing into the social reformer and