The Crusade of Dorothea Lynde Dix
by
Penny Colman
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2007
Dorothea Dix was almost forty years old when she discovered that people, especially poor people, with mental illness were "confined in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience." Outraged by this knowledge, Dix led a forty-year crusade...