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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464154303321

Autore

Sander Kathleen Waters <1947->

Titolo

Mary Elizabeth Garrett : society and philanthropy in the Gilded Age / / Kathleen Waters Sander

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2008

ISBN

1-4214-0410-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 322 p., [16] p. of plates ) : ill. ;

Disciplina

361.7/4092

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Soggetti

Women philanthropists - Maryland - Baltimore

Medical education - Maryland - Baltimore - Endowments - History

Women medical students - Maryland - Baltimore - History

Women in medicine - Maryland - Baltimore - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-309) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : quiet revolutionary -- Garrett's road -- Ascension -- Expansion and restriction -- After Garrett -- The practical head of the Garrett family -- The scheme -- A pleasure to be bought -- The happiness of getting our work done -- Wise and far-sighted.