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Categories: Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Prison reformers, Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference, People from Boston, Massachusetts, Mental health activists

Dix Dorothea Dix Dorothea Lynde Dix Dorthea Dix D. L. Dix

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

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reformer

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National Women's Hall of Fame

COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP

United States

DESCRIBED BY SOURCE

Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography

A Woman of the Century