| Description |
xx, 526 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-511) and index. |
| 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" |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Sage, Margaret Olivia Slocum, 1828-1918.
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Sage, Margaret Olivia Slocum, 1828-1918. |
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Women philanthropists -- United States -- Biography.
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Women philanthropists. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Charities -- United States -- History.
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Charities. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| ISBN |
0253347122 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780253347121 cloth alkaline paper |
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