Breaking the chains
Subtitle: the crusade of Dorothea Lynde Dix
By: Penny Colman.
Publisher: Shoe Tree Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: White Hall, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
Subjects: Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887 -- Juvenile literature.; Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887.; Women social reformers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Reformers.; Women -- Biography.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 139) and index.