"Sander'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

"Highly recommended."—Midwest Book Review

"Garrett's biography is long overdue, and Kathleen Waters Sander does a splendid job."—American Historical Review

"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."—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."—Journal of American History