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.

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Example Sentences

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

From Reminiscences, 1819-1899 by Howe, Julia Ward

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

From The Child's Book of American Biography by Stimpson, Mary Stoyell