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1 online resource (xx, 526 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
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Cover; C O N T E N T S; Acknowledgments; A Note on Sources; Introduction; Part I.A Liminal Place: 1828-1869; 1. Slocums, Jermains, Piersons-and a Sage; 2. "Distinctly a class privilege": Troy Female Seminary, 1846-1847; 3. "I do enjoy my independence": 1847-1858; 4. A Bankruptcy, Three Funerals, and a Wedding: 1858-1869; Part II. Becoming Mrs. Russell Sage: 1869-1906; 5. The Work of Benevolence? Mrs. Russell Sage, the Carlisle School, and Indian Reform; 6. "I live for that work": Negotiating Identities at the New-YorkWoman's Hospital |
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7. "Some aggressive work": The Emma Willard Association and Educated Womanhood, 1891-18988. Converted! Parlor Suffrage and After; 9. "Wiping her tears with the flag": Mrs. Russell Sage, Patriot,1897-1906; Part III. "Just beginning to live": 1906-1918; 10. "A kind of old-age freedom"; 11. Inventing the Russell Sage Foundation: 1907; 12. "Women and education-there is the key"; 13. "Nothing more for men's colleges": E. Lilian Todd and the Origins of Russell Sage College, 1916; 14. "Splendid Donation"; 15. "Send what Miss Todd thinks best"; Conclusion; Abbreviations; Notes; Select Bibliography |
| Summary |
A study of women's activism and philanthropy in Gilded Age and Progressive Era America |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-511) and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Sage, Margaret Olivia Slocum, 1828-1918.
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| SUBJECT |
Sage, Margaret Olivia Slocum, 1828-1918 fast |
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Women philanthropists -- United States -- Biography
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Charities -- United States -- History
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Philanthropy & Charity.
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Charities
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Women philanthropists
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United States
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collective biographies.
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780253112057 |
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0253112052 |
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9780253347121 |
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0253347122 |
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1282072862 |
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9781282072862 |
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9786612072864 |
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6612072865 |
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