Dorothea Dix
Dorothea Dix was born on April 4, 1802 in Hampden, Maine to Joseph Dix and Mary Bigelow Dix. She was the first of three kids. She had two younger brothers. Her family life was abusive and nonexistent most of the time. Her mother was mentally ill, and her father was an abusive alcoholic. Throughout ....
Dorothea Dix: A Woman of Great Accomplishments
Greene 1
"There are few cases in history where a social movement of such proportions can be attributed to the work of a single individual" (Kovach) At the age of thirty-nine a woman by the name of Dorothea Dix devoted the rest of her life as an advocate to the humane attitude towards the m....
Dorothea Lynde Dix
Dorothea Lynde Dix, also known as "Dragon Dix," was an activist for the welfare of the mentally ill. Currently, the mentally ill are treated as people with a need to be helped and cared for. In Dix's day, the mentally ill were treated as criminals with no excuse for their actions. Dix rec....
Dorthea Dix
In todays society there are mental heath care centers all over the world, but in the 1800s that was not the case. The mentally ill of the nineteenth century were viewed as demon-possessed or characterized as senseless animals (National Mental Health Associati....
Spinsterhood in Nineteenth Century America
Reflecting on her single life, Catharine Sedgwick wrote in her diary: "I certainly think a happy marriage the happiest condition of human life ... [I]t is the high opinion of its capabilities which has perhaps kept me from adventuring in it."(n1) This entry epitomizes the seemingly paradoxical conne....
Women Of The Cival War
Women Spies
Rose O Neal Greenhow, 1817-1864
Rose O Neal GreenHow was born in Montgomery County Maryland in 1817. Wild Rose, as she was called from a young age, as a leader in Washington society, a passionate secessionist, and one of the most renowned spies in the Cival War.
Among Ro....
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