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Women of the Antebellum Reform Movement

A portrait of Dorothea Dix, an advocate for the indigent insane who helped establish the US’s first mental asylums.

A portrait of Dorothea Dix, an advocate for the indigent insane who helped establish the US’s first mental asylums.

Citation Information: “Dorothea L. Dix,” Digital Public Library of America, http://dp.la/item/c7ca1ecc6282ce5873d3bf5d94d63fcc.

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Women of the Antebellum Reform Movement

A portrait of Dorothea Dix, an advocate for the indigent insane who helped establish the US’s first mental asylums.

Excerpt from a biography quoting a letter from the superintendent of McClean Asylum that supports Dix’s work for the mentally ill.

An excerpt from an address by Emma Willard to the New York State Legislature proposing a plan for improving female education.

A postcard showing a statue of Emma Willard on the campus of Russell Sage College, a women’s college started by Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage.

A letter from Susan B. Anthony to Elizabeth Cady Stanton about women’s rights and education for women, May 26, 1856.

An excerpt from a chapter on the benefits of education in the 1848 book A Treatise on Domestic Economy by Catherine Beecher.

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