Introduction [excerpts] In 1893, a young nurse from Rochester, New York, named Lillian D. Wald, visited the slums of New York City's Lower East Side and experienced a "baptism by fire" that would change her own life and the lives of millions of others.... Wald wrote two accounts of her life and work at the Henry Street Settlement, which she founded as a result of her early experiences: The House on Henry Street (1915) and Windows on Henry...