Little girls, many wearing fancy dresses, strolled into Grand Island's Edith Abbott Memorial Library Sunday afternoon. The library hosted a Victorian Tea Party for third- and fourth-graders in honor ...

The director of Grand island's Edith Abbott Memorial Library says that if Edith Abbott were alive today to see the library celebrate its 130th anniversary, she would have been ecstatic.The Grand ...

The Mies van der Rohe-designed building that is home to the University of Chicago’s Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice has been dedicated in honor of Edith Abbott, a UChicago ...

Edith Abbott (1876-1957) was the elder sister and lifelong professional colleague of Grace Abbott. She was among the most important Americans who were involved in the establishment of social work as a ...

For 45 years, Professor Sophonisba Breckinridge and Professor Edith Abbott jointly wrote books and scholarly articles and were seldom seen without each other. “Their preoccupation and leisurely pace ...

Edith ‘Edie’ N. Abbottformer Winchendon schoolteacher; 103 GARDNER Edith “Edie” N. (Woollacott) Abbott, 103, died Friday morning, in Wachusett Manor Nursing Home, Gardner, after a brief illness.Edie ...