1802-1887

Chronicles the life of Dorothea Dix, focusing on her efforts to improve health and psychological care for people with mental illnesses.

Contains unabridged editions of two memorials presented to the Illinois legislature in 1846-47 by humanitarian and reformer Dorothea Dix, in which she pleaded her case for the humane care and effective treatment of the mentally ill in Illinois; and includes a selection of newspaper articles she wrote detailing conditions in the jails and poorhouses of Illinois communities.

Biography of social reformer Dorothea Dix and work for better care for the mentally ill.

A biography of the nineteenth-century reformer who devoted much of her life to improving the treatment of the mentally ill in the United States.

Brief biographies of four women who achieved their ambitions against great odds.

Chronicles the life of social reformer Dorothea Dix, providing information on her strict upbringing, her years as a teacher, her work as a Civil War nurse, and her efforts as a lobbyist in Congress.

Recounts Dorothea Dix's lifelong fight to improve the lives of others, such as her own family, the mentally ill, prisoners, the physically ill, and the retarded.

A biography of the nineteenth-century reformer who devoted much of her life to improving the treatment of the mentally ill in the United States.