Mrs. Russell Sage : women's activism and philanthropy in gilded age and progressive era America / Ruth Crocker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crocker, Ruth, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women philanthropists--United States--Biography.

Women philanthropists.

Charities--United States--History.

Charities.

Sage, Margaret Olivia Slocum, 1828-1918.

Sage, Margaret Olivia Slocum.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (553 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the biography of a ruling-class woman who created a new identity for herself in Gilded Age and Progressive Era America. A wife who derived her social standing from her robber-baron husband, Olivia Sage managed to fashion an image of benevolence that made possible her public career. In her husband's shadow for 37 years, she took on the Victorian mantle of active, reforming womanhood. When Russell Sage died in 1906, he left her a vast fortune. An advocate for the rights of women and the responsib

Contents:

Cover; C O N T E N T S; Acknowledgments; A Note on Sources; Introduction; 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; 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, 1891-1898; 8. Converted! Parlor Suffrage and After

9. "Wiping her tears with the flag": Mrs. Russell Sage, Patriot,1897-190610. "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; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 485-511) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-07286-2

9786612072864

0-253-11205-2

OCLC:

476030903