Dorothy Dix or is also known as Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer, where she was born in a wealthy family on November 18, 1861 in Tennessee. She was a great woman where she was known for numerous accomplishments that reformed and helped the society at the time. With her essays on wives and women, it clearly reveals that Dorothy Dix wants to put a message from the early generations into the future generations to understand the women’s issues in the late 1800s and early 1900s. She wrote about the before and after challenges in a marriage between husband and wife. As early as the age eighteen, she was put to be married a man named Gilmer, where she and him lived for a period until where she realized that Gilmer was mentally unstable, so he lost many
