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American Reformer Daniels, Doris Groshen, Always a Sister: The Feminism of Lillian D.Wald, New York: Feminist
Epstein, Beryl Williams, Lillian Wald: Angel of Henry Street, New York: Julian Messner, 1948 Siegel, Beatrice, Lillian Wald of Henry Street, New York and London: Macmillan, 1983 One of the best-known women of her day, Lillian D. Wald has largely been forgotten by scholars. A contemporary of Jane Addams, Wald moved in the same social work and pacifist circles as the Hull House leader. Among the first generation of professional nurses, Wald founded the Visiting Nurse Service and the Henry Street Settlement in New York City in 1893. Besides battling for greater training and enhanced status for nurses, Wald also found time to lobby for women’s suffrage, organize female workers into unions, oppose the corruption of Tammany Hall, and work for peace in the years leading up to World War I. Much of the material on Wald consists of newspaper and magazine accounts penned by contemporaries. Studies of the settlement house and Progressive movements often note Wald’s endeavors, but only a few historians have attempted longer evaluations of the life of this reformer.
