Muckenhoupt, Margaret.
New York : Oxford University Press, c2003.
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Part of the series Oxford portraits;Oxford portraits.
Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 122-123) and index.
• A girl begins her lonely journey — The world is my home — A teacher and an author — Beginning the great work — I shall be obliged to speak with great plainness — Moral treatment for prisoners — A veto at home, a welcome in Europe — A model of charity for the South — The American Florence Nightingale — More travel, more battles.
• Traces the life and accomplishments of the nineteenth-century reformer who devoted her time to improving the treatment of the mentally ill and prisoners in the United States.

Subjects:

• Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887 — Juvenile literature.
• Women social reformers — United States — Biography — Juvenile literature.
• Mentally ill — Care — United States — History — Juvenile literature.
• Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887.
• Reformers.
• Mentally ill — Care — History.
• Women — Biography.

Requested by Koehler, B