Victoria Bissell Brown (PhD, UCSD) is the L. F. Parker Professor of History at Grinnell College. In addition to editing Jane Addams's autobiography, Twenty Years at Hull-House for Bedford/St. Martin’s, she is the author of The Education of Jane Addams (U. Penn Press, 2004) and articles on Addams, on Woodrow Wilson and gender, and on female adolescents in the Progressive Era. She is currently working on a social history of the American grandmother in the twentieth century.