Dorothea Dix : girl reformer
Title:
Dorothea Dix : girl reformer
Author:
Melin, Grace Hathaway.
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Publication Information:
Indianapolis : The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., [1963]
Physical Description:
200 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Series:
Childhood of famous Americans
Childhood of famous Americans series.
General Note:
List of series titles on endpapers.
List of author's titles precedes text.
Abstract:
Teaching a class of prisoners was perhaps the precipitating event in Dorothy Dix's youth. Thereafter she crusaded for better institutions--for the mentally ill, in particular. Her girlhood is emphasized here.
Local Note:
RPL copy: Stamps: 65-04827; Boys & Girls.
Housed in Special Collections Room of the Main Library. Please ask for assistance from library staff to retrieve this resource.
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Summary:
Teaching a class of prisoners was perhaps the precipitating event in Dorothy Dix's youth. Thereafter she crusaded for better institutions--for the mentally ill, in particular. Her girlhood is emphasized here.
