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Informationen zum Autor Ruth Crocker Klappentext Ruth Crocker is Professor of History and Director of the Women's Studies Program at Auburn University and author of Social Work and Social Order: The Settlement Movement in Two Industrial Cities, 1889¿1930. She lives in Auburn, Alabama. Zusammenfassung The wife of robber-baron Russell Sage, Olivia Sage took on the mantle of active, reforming womanhood in New York voluntary associations. When Russell Sage died in 1906, he left her a vast fortune. Sage used the money to fund a spectrum of progressive reforms. This biography is about a ruling-class woman who became a major American philanthropist. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents 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-York Woman's Hospital 7. "Some aggressive work": The Emma Willard Association and Educated Womanhood, 1891¿1898 8. 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 the Origins of Russell Sage College 14. "Splendid donation" 15. "Send what Miss Todd thinks best" Conclusion Abbreviations Notes Select Bibliography Index
