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Dorothea Lynde Dix (April 4, 1802 – July 17, 1887) was an American advocate on behalf of the poor mentally ill. By her vigorous and sustained program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, she helped create the first generation of American mental asylums. During the Civil War, she served as a Superintendent of Army Nurses. (From Wikipedia) More about Dorothea Lynde Dix:
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Books by Dorothea Lynde Dix Books about Dorothea Lynde Dix: Filed under: Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887
11 additional books about Dorothea Lynde Dix in the extended shelves:![[X-Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/infouc.gif) Dorothea Lynde Dix: a paper read before the Worcester Society of Antiquity, November 20th, l888 (Private press of F. P. Rice, 1889), by Alfred S. Roe (page images at HathiTrust)- Life of Dorothea Lynde Dix (Houghton Mifflin, 1918), by Francis Tiffany (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dorothea Lynde Dix. (Putnam, 1959), by Gertrude Norman (page images at HathiTrust)
- Life of Dorothea Lynde Dix. (Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1890), by Francis Tiffany (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dorothea Lynde Dix : a paper read before The Worcester Society of Antiquity, Nov. 20, 1888. (Franklin P. Rice, 1889), by Alfred S. Roe (page images at HathiTrust)
- Life of Dorothea Lynde Dix (Houghton, Mifflin and Co. ;, 1891), by Francis Tiffany (page images at HathiTrust)
- On the bill to provide for establishing a hospital for the insane (Printed at the Register Office, 1849), by Kenneth Rayner (page images at HathiTrust)
- Life of Dorothea Lynde Dix (Houghton, Mifflin, 1891), by Francis Tiffany, John Angel James Wilcox, Mass.) Riverside Press (Cambridge, and Mifflin and Company Houghton (page images at HathiTrust)
- Life of Dorothea Lynde Dix (Higginson Book Co., 1992), by Francis Tiffany (page images at HathiTrust)
- Daughters of the Puritans; a group of brief biographies (American Unitarian Association, 1907), by Seth Curtis Beach (page images at HathiTrust)
- Life of Dorothea Lynde Dix (Houghton, Mifflin, 1892), by Francis Tiffany (page images at HathiTrust)
Books by Dorothea Lynde Dix: ![[Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/info.gif) Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887: Conversations on Common Things: or, Guide to Knowledge, With Questions (third edition; Boston: Munroe and Francis, 1828) (multiple formats at Google)- Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887: The Garland of Flora (Boston: S. G. Goodrich and Co. and Carter and Hendee, 1829) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887: Memorial of Miss D. L. Dix, in Relation to the Illinois Penitentiary (1847) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887: Memorial Soliciting a State Hospital for the Insane: Submitted to the Legislature of Pennsylvania, February 3, 1845 (Philadelphia: I. Ashmead, printer, 1845) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887: Memorial to the Legislature of Massachusetts (1843) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887: Remarks on Prisons and Prison Discipline in the United States (Philadelphia: Joseph Kite and Co., 1845) (multiple formats at Google)
- Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887: Remarks on Prisons and Prison Discipline in the United States (Boston: Printed by Munroe and Francis, 1845) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887, contrib.: Reports of the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane, 1847-1862 (Chicago: F. Fulton and Co., 1863), by Jacksonville Insane Asylum (Ill.) (multiple formats at Google)
Additional books by Dorothea Lynde Dix in the extended shelves:- Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887: American moral tales, for young persons. (L.C. Bowles and B.H. Greene, 1832) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887: Conversations on common things, or Guide to knowledge. (Munroe and Francis, 1829) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887: Conversations on common things; or, Guide to Knowledge, with questions. (Munroe and Francis, 1842) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887: Conversations on common things ; or guide to knowledge. With questions. For the the use of schools and families (Munroe and Francis, 1832) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887: Conversations on common things, or Guide to knowledge : with questions : for the use of schools and familie. For the the use of schools and families (Munroe and Francis, 1831) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887: Guide to knowledge. (Munroe and Francis, 1828), also by David Claypoole Johnston and Munroe & Francis (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887: John Williams (Bowles and Dearborn, 72 Washington Street, 1827), also by Alonzo Hartwell, Isaac R. Butts and Co, and Bowles and Dearborn (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887: John Williams : or The sailor boy, illust. by Alonzo Hartwell (Gutenberg ebook)
- Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887: Meditations for private hours (L.B. Weston, 1870) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887: Memorial of Miss D.L. Dix, : In relation to the Illinois penitentiary. (s.n., 1847), also by 1st session: 1847-1848). Senate Illinois. General Assembly (15th (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887: Memorial soliciting a state hospital for the insane (J. M. G. Lescure, printer to the state, 1845) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887: Memorial soliciting a state hospital for the insane. (I. Ashmead, printer, 1845) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887: Memorial soliciting an appropriation for the state hospital for the insane, at Lexington : and also urging the necessity for establishing a new hospital in the Green River country (A.G. Hodges, 1846) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887: Memorial. To the Legislature of Massachusetts [protesting against the confinement of insane persons and idiots in almshouses and prisons] (Printed by Munroe & Francis, 1843) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887: Orations (Seaton Gales, printer for the State, 1848), also by Seaton Gales and North Carolina. General Assembly (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887: The practical methods of ventilating buildings, being the annual address before the Massachusetts Medical Society, May 31, 1848. With an appendix on heating by steam and hot water. (Damrell & Moore, 1848), also by Luther V. Bell and Massachusetts Medical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887: Remarks on prisons and prison discipline in the United States (J. Kite & co., printers, 1845) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887: Reports of the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane. 1847-1862. (F. Fulton & Co., Book and Job Printers, 1863), also by Jacksonville Insane Asylum (Ill.) (page images at HathiTrust)
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