Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-511) and index.
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.
7. "Some aggressive work": The Emma Willard Association andEducated 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 theOrigins of Russell Sage College, 1916; 14. "Splendid Donation"; 15. "Send what Miss Todd thinks best"; Conclusion; Abbreviations; Notes; Select Bibliography.
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A study of women's activism and philanthropy in Gilded Age and Progressive Era America.
Mrs. Russell Sage.
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Sage, Margaret Olivia Slocum,1828-1918.
Sage, Margaret Olivia Slocum,1828-1918.
Charities-- United States-- History.
Women philanthropists-- United States, Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Social Scientists & Psychologists.