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Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry - With Extracts from Her Journal and Letters (Paperback)
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Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry - With Extracts from Her Journal and Letters (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century, Volume 2
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Elizabeth Fry (nee Gurney, 1780-1845) was descended from two
wealthy Quaker banking families. Her Quaker faith was crucial to
her adult life and she became active in social reform. Despite
having eleven children, she was active in community work, and
became a Quaker minister. Persuaded to visit the women's wing in
Newgate Prison in 1813, she was appalled at the conditions in which
the prisoners, and their children, lived. She became a pioneer in
seeking to improve the situation for women in prisons and on
transportation ships. The British Ladies' Society for Promoting the
Reformation of Female Prisoners was probably the first national
British women's society. Fry's ideas on the humane treatment of
prisoners influenced international legal systems. This memoir,
based on her letters and diaries, was edited by two of her
daughters, and was first published in 1847. Volume 2 covers the
period from 1826 to 1845.
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