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Book SynopsisSander's thoughtful and informed study of this pioneering philanthropist is the first to recognize Garrett and her monumental contributions to equality in America.
Trade ReviewSander's book offers a well-researched and warm portrait of a female maverick who redefined the meaning of the term 'daddy's girl.' Baltimore Sun 2008 Sander's book offers a well-researched and warm portrait of a female maverick who redefined the meaning of the term daddy's girl. -- Diane Scharper Baltimore Sun 2008 Highly recommended. Midwest Book Review 2008 Garrett's biography is long overdue, and Kathleen Waters Sander does a splendid job. -- Kathleen D. McCarthy American Historical Review 2009 A well-written, judicious, and engrossing examination of one of the major women philanthropists in the United States during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. -- John Thomas McGuire Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era An important, richly detailed biography of a formidable nineteenth-century woman who worked in a man's world to help women attain education, suffrage, and equality. -- Christine Woyshner Journal of American History
Table of ContentsPreface
Foreword, by Senator Barbara A. Mikulski
Introduction: Quiet Revolutionary
1. Garrett's Road
2. Ascension
3. Expansion and Restriction
4. After Garrett
5. The Practical Head of the Garrett Family
6. The Scheme
7. A Pleasure to Be Bought
8. The Happiness of Getting Our Work Done
9. Wise and Far-sighted
Appendix A: Class of 1879, the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania
Appendix B: Analysis of the Women's Medical School Fund Campaign
Notes
Essay on Sources
Index
