Dorothea Dix
Subtitle: crusader for the mentally ill
By: Amy Paulson Herstek
Series: Historical American biographies
Publisher: Enslow Publishers
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Berkeley Heights, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9780766012585
Subjects: History; Mentally ill; Women social reformers; Social problems; Reformers; Care; Juvenile literature; Biography; Women
Description: Traces the life and career of a great social reformer, from her strict upbringing, through her years as a teacher and Civil War nurse, to her work as a lobbyist in Congress.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 110) and index.
Table of contents: title: "I tell what I have seen"; title: Out of the wilderness, 1802-1814; title: Learning to be a lady, 1814-1827; title: Journeys outward, 1827-1840; title: Sunday in East Cambridge, 1841-1853; title: To the Capitol!; title: Back home, back to war.