Dorothea Dix

Dorothea Dix is an American social reformer with a huge impact of saving lives before and during The Civil War. In her early life, she opened a school for children including poor and neglected to help out on their reading and writing. Dix is more compassionate to teach the poor and neglected children, who can’t afford or able to make it to school, by coming to their houses because she felt the same connection during her childhood years under her strict and alcoholic father. Luckily her wealthy grandmother, Dorothea Lynde, took her in which makes Dix open the school and later take interest in help out the mentally poor that introduces the start of the asylums. Due to her poor health, Dorothea Dix ceased teaching students and move onward of researching the mentally ill. The reason why Dix chose to research the mentally ill is when Samuel Gridley Howe encourages her to work in East Cambridge to teach female prisoners with mental illness. Later on, she was researching in the Massachusetts she notices that the East Cambridge does not meet the needs of a mentally ill building and been treated in horrible conditions. She describe as, “present state of Insane Persons confined within this Commonwealth, in cages, closets, cellars,…

second glance from most people. In 1848, the state of North Carolina seemed to turn a blind eye on those who were mentally incapable of taking care of themselves. Dorothea Dix, an advocate for a rights movement stepped forward. Dorothea Lynde Dix uses her voice as an advocate to appeal to the State to speak out against treatment and negligence of the mentally ill and insane. She uses representation, shows examples of democracy in her explanations, as well as fairness to prove her point even…

Dorothea Lynde Dix: A Defender And Protector Dorothea Dix advanced the world of assisting the mentally ill in giant leaps and strides. Some may feud over how important Dorothea is, but those who know her story know the truth. Not only did she nurture the mentally ill, she also felt responsible for the blind and deaf, and she cared for those who could not care for themselves. Dorothea was born on April 4, 1802 in Hampden, Maine. Her father was a puritan pastor, and her mother stayed home and…

Dorothea Dix was an inspirational woman and is a great role model for many people. She was a social reformer and an activist for the poverty-stricken and the mentally ill. During the Civil War, she was Superintendent of Army Nurses. She achieved many goals in her life and also accomplished more things in her life than many people. Dorothea Dix came into the world on April 4, 1802 in Hampden, Maine. Her parents, Joseph and Mary, had three children, and Dorothea was the firstborn. They lived in…

Dorothea Lynde Dix Born on April the fourth, 1802 in Hampden, Main, Dorothea Lynde Dix was born into a household with a depressed mother, a father who was never around, and two brothers (history.com). Her lifetime obsession with books came from her father teaching her reading and writing as a kid (history.com). Dorothea’s education furthered when her grandmother took her in at the age of 12 in Boston (history.com). Dorothea began writing books that sold swiftly when her health kept her…

Dorothea Dix She was born in Hampden Maine, April 4, 1802. She was the eldest of three children and her father was a religious fanatic and distributor of religious tracts who made Dorothea stitch and paste the tracts together, a chore she hated. When she was 12 she went to live with her grandmother in Boston, then she went to live with her aunt in Worcester, Massachusetts. She came back and started teaching at age 14. In 1819 she went back to boston and funded the dix mansion, a school for…

it’s a well-paying job. You don’t speak out because you’re worried about your family and three kids at home who need to be fed. Stories like these occurred in prisons and mental institutions all around the world. The History.com editors, writers for a world renown history website, describe the awful conditions Dorothea Dix witnessed in prisons and mental institutions: “... flogged, starved, chained, physically and sexually abused by their keepers, and left naked and without…

The Impact Of Dorothea Dix On The Treatment Of The Mentally Ill Dorothea Dix played a major part in the improvement and founding of mentally ill hospitals. Dix submitted her first pamphlet to the state legislature in 1843. During that time, pamphlets were the only way women could have a voice in politics. Women were not allowed to vote or even speak before a legislature. In her “memorial” Dorothea showed the world the harsh treatment and neglect that the mentally ill faced. Manon S. Parry…

Dorothea Lynde Dix was born on April 4th, 1802 in Hampden, Maine. In that particular time of her life, she would not have had any knowledge of the fact that she would one day have a life changing impact in her time period and our world today. Dix had a love for teaching. She had strong desires to help girls learn and grow more with intelligence. At the age of twelve, she moved to Boston with her grandmother and then to Worcester, Massachusetts with her aunt at the age of fourteen. In order to…

This woman is Dorothea Lynde Dix. Born to a poor family in 1802, she was possibly neglected and saw her early life as bleak and lonely. Dix moved to live with her grandparents at the young age of twelve, which was the first of several dramatic turns in her life. She set up her first school at age fourteen, and was a very strict but joyful teacher. She closed the school after three years to focus on her own studies. She later opened two new schools, one which was free to poor children. Even as…