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):

Sage, Margaret Olivia Slocum, 1828-1918.

Sage, Margaret Olivia Slocum.

Women philanthropists--United States--Biography.

Women philanthropists.

Charities--United States--History.

Charities.

United States.

History.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Biography.

Physical Description:

xx, 526 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2006]

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.

Contents:

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."

Notes:

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

ISBN:

0253347122

9780253347121

9780253220455

0253220459

OCLC:

64591962

Publisher Number:

9780253347121