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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.2 | The History Cooperative
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Dorothea Dix: New England Reformer. By Thomas J. Brown. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. xviii, 422 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-674-21488-9.)

Biographical interpretations rarely remain constant; each generation feels impelled to reevaluate prominent figures in the light of contemporary concerns. Dorothea L. Dix is no exception to this generalization. Earlier biographies by Francis Tiffany (1890) and Helen E. Marshall (1937) were highly favorable. David Gollaher's more recent biography (1995) was somewhat more critical, although by no means hostile. He employed psychodynamic concepts in order to illuminate Dix's life as a woman and as a social activist. . . .

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