Noun: Dorothea Lynde Dix
- United States social reformer who pioneered in the reform of prisons and in the treatment of the mentally ill; superintended women army nurses during the American Civil War (1802-1887)
- Dix, Dorothea Dix
Type of: crusader, meliorist, reformer, reformist, social reformer
Encyclopedia: Dorothea Lynde Dix