Author: Francis TiffanyPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Life of Dorothea Lynde Dix
Author: Francis TiffanyRemarks on Prisons and Prison Discipline in the United States
Author: Dorothea Lynde DixPublisher:
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Category : Jails
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Dorothea Dix
Author: Thomas J. BrownPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674214880
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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The disastrous failure of one of the most widely admired heroines in the nation provides a dramatic measure of the transformations of northern values during the war.
Life of Dorothea Lynde Dix
Author: Francis TiffanyPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230288086
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter xxv. still on the continent. Once away from Italy, which she left early in March, 1856, the first traces of Miss Dix on her travel eastward, are met in two time-stained letters, the first addressed to Dr. Buttolph, in the United States, the second to Mr. William Rathbone, in England. Written while her steamer was lying at anchor in the harbor of the Island of Corfu, they furnish glimpses of the diligence with which she was pursuing her appointed work. To Dr. H. A. Buttolph. "You will not be more surprised than I am that I find traveling alone perfectly easy. I get into all the hospitals and all the prisons I have time to see or strength to explore. I take no refusals, and yet I speak neither Italian, German, Greek, or Sclavonic. I have no letter of introduction, and know no persons en route. I found at Trieste a very bad hospital for the insane. Fortunately a physician attached to the suite of the Archduke Maximilian has promised the intervention of government at Trieste and assured me that all the institutions of Austria shall be open to my visits if I come to Vienna...". To Mr. William Rathbone. "Island Of Corfu, March 27, 18515. "I have just time, since running on shore to see the prisons and hospitals, to report myself briefly to you and Mrs. R. Providence graciously protects me, and I am in no respects thus far impeded in my great objects of seeing the prisons and hospitals. By rare good fortune, I had an introduction to the physician of the Archduke Maximilian at Trieste, and made a move for a reform and renewal of the hospitals for the insane in that part of the Austrian Dominions; also had the promise of the entree to all the institutions of the Empire, if I went to Vienna. When the boat arrived last night, I went on...
Conversations on Common Things
Author: Dorothea Lynde DixPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Life of Dorothea Lynde Dix
Author: Francis TiffanyLife of Dorothea Lynde Dix
Author: Francis TiffanyPublisher:
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Category : Nurses
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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Life of Dorothea Lynde Dix (Classic Reprint)
Author: Francis TiffanyPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780265538319
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Excerpt from Life of Dorothea Lynde Dix Glimpses of this childhood are lighted on at various spots in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, as well as in Worcester and Boston, Massachusetts. SO painful, however, to the subsequent woman always remained the memory of its bitterness that in no hour of the most confidential intimacy could she be induced to unlock the silence which to the very end of life she maintained as to all the incidents of her early days. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Dorothea Lynde Dix
Author: Gertrude NormanLife of Dorothea Lynde Dix
Author: New Library Press.NetPublisher:
ISBN: 9780795013829
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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