Dix, Dorothea

Cultural  

1. Nineteenth-century reformer who protested the practice of confining the mentally ill in prisons and whose labors led to the expansion and improvement of mental hospitals.

---

Example Sentences

You see, Joseph Dix, Dorothea's father, was a strange man.

From Project Gutenberg

Year after year Mrs. Dix, Dorothea, and her two brothers sat in the house, doing this tiresome work.

From Project Gutenberg

Dix, Dorothea L., her work for the insane, 88.

From Project Gutenberg

Dix, Dorothea, 324, 327, 328-331.

From Project Gutenberg