Memorial. To the Legislature of Massachusetts [protesting against the confinement of insane persons and idiots in almshouses and prisons], by Dorothea Dix, 1843.
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Dix began to investigate the treatment of the mentally ill in Massachusetts, and in 1843 submitted her first “memorial” to the state legislature. These pamphlets were the only means by which a woman could participate in political life in America.