Mrs. Russell Sage : women's activism and philanthropy in gilded age and progressive era America / Ruth Crocker.
Crocker, Ruth, 1943-
2008
HV28.S1267 C76 2008 (Mapit)
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Title
Mrs. Russell Sage : women's activism and philanthropy in gilded age and progressive era America / Ruth Crocker.
Author
Crocker, Ruth, 1943-
ISBN
9780253220455 (pbk.)
0253220459 (pbk.)
Publication Details
Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press ; Chesham : Combined Academic [distributor], 2008.
Language
English
Description
xx, 526 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
HV28.S1267 C76 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
361.74092
Summary
Biography of Olivia Sage (1828-1918), wife of Russell Sage. Information from untapped manuscript sources reveals the active and crucial role played by Mrs. Sage in the creation and early management of America's first social-welfare philanthropic foundation.
Note
Originally published: 2006.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
Philanthropic and nonprofit studies
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1: A Liminal place: 1828-1869
Slocums, Jermains, Piersons
and a Sage
:Distinctly a class privilege": Troy female seminary, 1846-1847
"I do enjoy my independence": 1847-1858
A bankruptcy, three funerals, and a wedding: 1858-1869
2: Becoming Mrs. Russell Sage: 1869-1906
The work of benevolence? Mrs. Russell Sage, the Carlisle School, and Indian reform
"I live for that work": negotiating identities at the New-York Woman's Hospital
"Some aggressive work": the Emma Willard Association and educated womanhood 1891-1898
Converted! Parlor suffrage and after
"Wiping her tears with the flag": Mrs. Russell Sage, patriot, 1897-1906
3: "Just beginning to live": 1906-1918
"A kind of old-age freedom"
Inventing the Russell Sage Foundation: 1907
"Women and education
there is the key"
"Nothing more for men's colleges": E. Lilian Todd and origins of Russell Sage College, 1916
"Splendid donation"
"Send what Miss Todd thinks best"

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