Addams and Smith travel to Egypt
Description
Addams' travels in Egypt are chronicled in the Atlantic Monthly. The essay serves as the foundation for The Long Road of Women's Memory, a literary work in which Addams reflects on the origins of myth and the female psyche. Addams completes the book during the early part of the First World War. Joslin hypothesizes that the central purposes of the book - Addams' effort "to define the transmutation of fear into myth" is perhaps "her own attempt to deflect public criticism of her pacifism," following the negative reaction to her Carnegie Hall speech in July of 1915 (Quoted in Joslin, p. 173). One chapter in the book, titled "Women's Memories-Challenging War," addresses the war and her pacifism in the form of a fictionalized story of the relationship between a mother and her son who is killed in battle during the European war.
Date
1913-03-01
Source
Addams, Jane. "The Unexpected Reactions of a Traveler in Europe." The Atlantic Monthly CXIII (1914): 178-85. Hathi Trust Digital Library. Web. 31 May 2017.