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Women who give away millions
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ISBN: 1459714237 1554883822 1281957445 9786611957445 9781554883820 9781554886036 1554886031 9781459714236 9781281957443 0888821867 0888821875 9780888821874 9780888821867 Year: 1996 Publisher: Toronto Oxford Hounslow Press

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This book pays tribute to 14 women who donated millions of dollars to causes close to their hearts.


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Ellen Browning Scripps
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ISBN: 1496201140 1496201124 9781496201126 9781496201133 1496201132 9781496201140 9780803295957 0803295952 Year: 2017 Publisher: Lincoln

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Margaret Aylward (1810-1889) : lady of charity, sister of faith
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ISBN: 1851824383 9781851824380 Year: 1999 Publisher: Dublin: Four Courts Press,

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Women and philanthropy in nineteenth-century england
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ISBN: 0198226284 Year: 1980 Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press,

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Mrs. Russell Sage
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ISBN: 1282072862 9786612072864 0253112052 9780253112057 9780253347121 0253347122 9781282072862 6612072865 Year: 2006 Publisher: Bloomington Indiana University Press

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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

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ISBN: 1281961914 1459714393 9786611961916 1554881641 9781554881642 9781550020298 1550020293 9781459714397 1550020293 1550020307 9781550020304 Year: 1988 Publisher: Toronto [Ont.] Dundurn Press

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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, art and the politics of identity in eighteenth-century Europe
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ISBN: 1315233665 9781351871730 1351871730 9781315233666 0754607100 9780754607106 9780754607106 9781351871716 1351871722 9781351871723 Year: 2016 Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon New York

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La dama y el humanista : Doña Mencía de Mendoza y Juan Luis Vives entre Flandes y Valencia.
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ISBN: 9788496633223 Year: 2007 Publisher: Murcia Nausicaä

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Staging philanthropy : patriotic women and the national imagination in dynastic Germany, 1813-1916
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ISBN: 1282597493 9786612597497 0472022660 9780472022663 047211171X 9780472111718 9781282597495 6612597496 Year: 2001 Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,

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Patriotic Women and the National Imagination in Dynastic Germany, 1813-1916

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