Stranger and traveler
Subtitle: the story of Dorothea Dix, American reformer
By: by Dorothy Clarke Wilson.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 1975
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
Subjects: Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887; Women social reformers -- United States -- Biography
Description: ""She is one of the most beautiful proofs of that which a woman, without any other aid than her own free will and character, without any other power than that of her purpose and its uprightness...can effect in society." So wrote a contemporary Swedish novelist of Dorothea Dix, one of America's first and foremost women achievers. In an era when "ladies" did not mix in politics she single-handedly paved the way for far-reaching reform in the treatment of the insane and the retarded..." -- Dust jacket.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 343-347.
Includes index.