Dorothea Lynde Dix

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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.