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This illustrated collection of annotated newspaper articles and memorials by Dorothea Dix provides a forum for the great mid-nineteenth-century humanitarian and reformer to speak for herself. In his preface, David L. Lightner describes some of the vivid images that emerge from Dorothea Dix's descriptions of social conditions in Illinois a century and a half ago.

Asylum Prison and Poorhouse The Writings and

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      Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
      Publication Date: 6/30/1999 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780809321636, 978-0809321636
      ISBN10: 0809321637

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      Book Synopsis
      This illustrated collection of annotated newspaper articles and memorials by Dorothea Dix provides a forum for the great mid-nineteenth-century humanitarian and reformer to speak for herself. In his preface, David L. Lightner describes some of the vivid images that emerge from Dorothea Dix's descriptions of social conditions in Illinois a century and a half ago.

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