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This book pays tribute to 14 women who donated millions of dollars to causes close to their hearts.
Women philanthropists --- Philanthropists --- Women benefactors
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Women journalists --- Women philanthropists --- Philanthropists --- Women benefactors --- Scripps, Ellen Browning,
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Aylward, Margaret --- Women benefactors --- Aighleart, Maighréad, - 1810-1889
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Women philanthropists --- History --- Philanthropists --- Women benefactors --- Grande-bretagne --- Histoire --- Oeuvres de bienfaisance --- 19e siecle
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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
Charities --- Women philanthropists --- Philanthropists --- Women benefactors --- History. --- Sage, Margaret Olivia Slocum, --- Sage, Russell,
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Cairine Wilson, Canada's first female senator, was one of nine children raised in an atmosphere of rugged Scots liberalism and strict presbyterianism by affluent Montreal parents in the late nineteenth century. She displayed an interest in politics early in life and through her father's position in the Senate, was befriended by many notable politicians of the period, including Sir Wilfrid Laurier, an experience that left a permanent mark on her. Her appointment to the Senate in 1930 was a historic and controversial event, and launched a political career rife with passion, commitment, and re
Women legislators --- Women philanthropists --- Philanthropists --- Women benefactors --- Congresswomen --- Legislators --- Wilson, Cairine. --- Canada. --- Senate of Canada
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Painting, European --- Women painters --- Women art patrons --- Art patrons --- Women benefactors --- Painters --- Women artists --- European painting --- History and criticism.
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Humanism --- Humanists --- Philosophers --- Women benefactors --- History --- History --- Mendoza, Mencía de, --- Vives, Juan Luis --- Art patronage. --- Friends and associates.
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930.85.42 --- 396 "04/14" --- Women --- -Women benefactors --- -Benefactors --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- 396 "04/14" Feminisme. Vrouwenbeweging. Vrouw en maatschappij--Middeleeuwen --- Feminisme. Vrouwenbeweging. Vrouw en maatschappij--Middeleeuwen --- 930.85.42 Cultuurgeschiedenis: Middeleeuwen --- Cultuurgeschiedenis: Middeleeuwen --- History --- -History --- -930.85.42 Cultuurgeschiedenis: Middeleeuwen --- Women benefactors --- Bienfaitrices --- Mécénat --- Benefactors --- History. --- Women art patrons --- Art patronage --- Femmes --- Femmes mécènes --- Mécénat --- Histoire --- Women benefactors - Europe - History. --- Women - History - Middle Ages, 500-1500.
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Patriotic Women and the National Imagination in Dynastic Germany, 1813-1916
Women in charitable work --- Women philanthropists --- Patriotism --- Loyalty --- Allegiance --- Philanthropists --- Women benefactors --- Charities --- Charity --- Public welfare --- Social service --- Women --- History. --- Germany --- Politics and government.
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