Is Dorothea Dix throwing off her womanly nature and appearance in the course she is pursuing? In finding duties abroad, has any refined man felt that something of beauty has gone forth from her? To use the contemptuous word applied in the lecture alluded to, is she becoming mannish? Is she compromising her womanly dignity in going forth to seek to better the condition of the insane and afflicted? Is not a beautiful mind and a retiring modesty still conspicuous in her?
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Dorothea Dix was a 19th-century American social reformer. Dorothea Lynde Dix was an American advocate on behalf of the poor mentally ill. By her vigorous and sustained program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, she helped create the first generation of American mental asylums. Read more on Wikipedia →