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bn:00027946n
Noun Named Entity
Categories: Articles with short description, 1802 births, United States Sanitary Commission people, People from Worcester, Massachusetts, Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference
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Dix  Dorothea Dix  Dorothea Lynde Dix  Dorthea dix  D. L. Dix
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United States social reformer who pioneered in the reform of prisons and in the treatment of the mentally ill; superintended women army nurses during the American Civil War (1802-1887) WordNet 3.0
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United States social reformer who pioneered in the reform of prisons and in the treatment of the mentally ill; superintended women army nurses during the American Civil War (1802-1887) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Dorothea Lynde Dix was an American advocate on behalf of the indigent mentally ill who, through a vigorous and sustained program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, created the first generation of American mental asylums. Wikipedia
A nineteenth-century American activist. Wikipedia Disambiguation
American author and social reformer Wikidata
IS A
reformer
homo
AWARD RECEIVED
National Women's Hall of Fame
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
United States
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
A Woman of the Century
GIVEN NAME
Dorothea
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
OCCUPATION
writer
doctor
name
nurse
botanical collector
PLACE OF BIRTH
Hampden
PLACE OF BURIAL
Mount Auburn Cemetery
PLACE OF DEATH
Trenton
SEX OR GENDER
female
WRITING LANGUAGE
English
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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Dix, Dorothea Dix, Dorothea Lynde Dix
Wikipedia
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Dorothea Dix
Wikidata
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Dorothea Dix
Wikipedia Redirections
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Dorethea Dix, Dorothea Lynde Dix, Dorothy Lynde Dix, Dorthea Dix, Dorthea dix, Dorthea Dix Allen
Wikidata Alias
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D. L. Dix, Dorothea L. Dix, Dorothea Lynde Dix

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