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Asylum, Prison, and Poorhouse: The Writings and Reform Work of Dorothea Dix in Illinois
Asylum Prison and Poorhouse The Writings and Reform Work of Dorothea Dix in Illinois
Author: David L. Lightner
This illustrated collection of annotated newspaper articles and memorials by Dorothea Dix provides a forum for the great mid-nineteenth-century humanitarian and reformer to speak for herself. — Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802­?87) was perhaps the most famous and admired woman in America for much of the nineteenth century. Beginning in the early 1840s, s...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780809321636
ISBN-10: 0809321637
Publication Date: 6/1/1999
Pages: 184
Edition: 1st
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Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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