Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry
With Extracts from Her Journal and Letters
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Part of Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century
- Author: Elizabeth Fry
- Editors:
- Katharine Fry
- Rachel Elizabeth Cresswell
- Date Published: July 2011
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- isbn: 9781108030373
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Elizabeth Fry (née 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.
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- Date Published: July 2011
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108030373
- length: 1048 pages
- dimensions: 324 x 250 x 70 mm
- weight: 1.6kg
- contains: 2 b/w illus.
- availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
Volume 1: Introduction
1. 1780–1792. Birth
2. 1792–1798. Sketch of female society
3. 1798. Visit to London, gaiety there
4. 1798–1800. Return to Earlham
5. 1800–1809. Marriage
6. 1809–1812. Removal to Plashet, enjoyment of the country
7. 1811–1814. Journey with Henry Hall and her sister, Priscilla Gurney
8. 1813–1817. Letter to the Rev. Edward Edwards
9. 1817–1818. Extract from Crabbe's Poems
10. 1818. Return to Plashet
11. 1819–1821. Takes her sons to school
12. 1821–1823. Marriage of one of her daughters
13. 1824–1825. Journey to Worcester. Volume 2:
14. 1826–1827. Ladies' prison meeting
15. 1827–1829. Illness of her sister Rachel Gurney, gradual decline and death
16. 1829–1830. Foreign correspondence
17. 1831–1833. Journey to Lynn
18. 1833–1834. Sojourn in Jersey
19. 1834–1836. Death of the Duke of Gloucester
20. 1837–1838. Earlham
21. 1839. Sale at Crosby Hall for the Ladies' British Society
22. 1840–1841. Audience of the Queen
23. 1841–1842. Letter to Colonel Jebb
24. 1842–1844. Death of a grandaughter
25. 1844–1845. Return from Walmer.
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