Dorothea Dix????

How did living in the North affect her views in life????





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Dorothea Dix????
Now here is a story that Hollywood refuses to touch which is sad. Yes Dorothea Dix was a homely spinster hardly the stuff of romance but what the Heck, born into near poverty, plagued by poor health, she none-the-less was a tireless worker who lived to nearly ninety years of age.


Dix was a child of Maine. Her father a religious man. Raised amidst the stern Congregationalism of New England, Dorothea developed a work ethnic stressing hard word, strict discipline, a complete lack of frivolity. Many might fault Dix for being dry and humoress but never for working hard. At the age of near 60 Dix volunteered to work for free organzing nurses for the Union cause.


A short answer; living in the North especially New England gave Dix the notion that working hard %26amp; tirelessly selflessly was the only way to work.


http://www.dhhs.state.nc.us/MHDDSAS/DIX/...


%26quot;%26quot;%26quot;Dorothea Lynde Dix, daughter of Mary and Joseph Dix, was born in the tiny village of Hampden, Maine, on April 4, 1802. Her father, an itinerant preacher and publisher of religious tracts, had married much against his parents%26#039; wishes and had left their home in Boston to settle on what were then %26quot;wilderness lands%26quot; in Maine, owned by his father, Doctor Elijah Dix. %26quot;%26quot;


http://www.nursingadvocacy.org/press/pio...





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