Entitled to relief: Poor women, charity, and medicine, 1900-1920
A case study in the politics of social provision, this dissertation uncovers the origins of a legal dispute between directors of a charitable trust and its female beneficiaries during the Progressive Era. In 1919 the poor women of Brattleboro, Vermont, legatees of the Thomas Thompson Trust, sued the...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
1996
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9619374 |