Mrs. Russell Sage: Women's Activism and Philanthropy in Gilded Age and Progressive Era America

by Ruth Crocker

Book Overview

This is the biography of a ruling-class woman who became a major American philanthropist. The wife of robber-baron Russell Sage (partner of Jay Gould) and in her husband's shadow for 37 years, 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. Already in her 70s, she took the money and put it to her own uses. An advocate for the rights of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253220459
• ISBN13: 9780253220455
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 525 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.9" x 9.3"