Dorothea Lynde Dix

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Noun1.Dorothea Lynde Dix - United States social reformer who pioneered in the reform of prisons and in the treatment of the mentally ill; superintended women army nurses during the American Civil War (1802-1887)
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Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802-1887) was an author, teacher and reformer.
Healing "the most unkindest cut of all"
Partly a poetic biography of Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802-87), partly the portrait of an epoch, An Elastic State of Mind resonates between character and author in an intimate and subtle construct.
Ren Powell. An Elastic State of Mind: D.L.D.'s Autobiography in Poems
Dorothea Lynde Dix was born April 4, 1802, in Hampden, Maine; she died July 17, 1887, and was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge.
Dorothea Lynde Dix; Advocate and crusader for the mentally ill
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