Mary Elizabeth Garrett: Society and Philanthropy in the Gilded Age
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- Synopsis
- &“[A] richly detailed biography of a formidable nineteenth-century woman who worked in a man&’s world to help women attain education, suffrage, and equality.&” —Journal of American History As youngest child and only daughter to B&O Railroad mogul John Work Garrett, Mary was bright and capable, well suited to become her father&’s heir apparent. But social convention prohibited her from following in his footsteps, a source of great frustration for the brilliant and strong-willed woman. Mary turned her attention instead to promoting women&’s rights, using her status and massive wealth to advance her uncompromising vision for women&’s place in the expanding United States. She contributed the endowment to establish the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine with two unprecedented conditions: that women be admitted on the same terms as men and that the school be graduate level, thereby forcing revolutionary policy changes at the male-run institution. Believing that advanced education was the key to women&’s betterment, she helped found and sustain the prestigious girls&’ preparatory school in Baltimore, the Bryn Mawr School. Her philanthropic gifts to Bryn Mawr College helped transform the modest Quaker school into a renowned women&’s college. She was also a great supporter of women&’s suffrage. Kathleen Waters Sander recounts in impressive detail the life and times of this remarkable woman, through the turbulent years of the Civil War to the early twentieth century. At once a captivating biography of Garrett and an epic account of the rise of commerce, railroading, and women&’s rights, Sander&’s work is the first to recognize her monumental contributions to America while also reexamining the great social and political movements of the age.
- Copyright:
- 2008
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- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 360 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781421404103
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781421438641
- Publisher:
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 07/29/23
- Copyrighted By:
- Kathleen Waters Sander
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Social Studies
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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