The excellent Mrs. Fry : unlikely heroine / Anne Isba.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Isba, Anne, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fry, Elizabeth Gurney, 1780-1845.

Fry, Elizabeth Gurney.

Prison reformers--Great Britain--Biography.

Prison reformers.

Great Britain--Social conditions--19th century.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, [England] ; New York, New York : Continuum, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Elizabeth Fry, the great Quaker prison reformer of the nineteenth century, was just thirty two years old when she first entered the notorious women's gaol at Newgate. She was the mother of eight children and would go on to have three more. Yet, despite the demands of family, she would devote the rest of her life - over three more decades - to the welfare of female prisoners and convicts bound for Australia. When her efforts at last helped achieve changes to British law, Fry turned her attention to winning the hearts and minds of the great and good on continental Europe. She treated all people

Contents:

Contents; List of illustrations; Foreword; Introduction; PART ONE: AN UNLIKELY HEROINE; PART TWO: THE NEWGATE EXPERIMENT; PART THREE: SPREADING THE WORD; PART FOUR: THE FINAL YEARS; Chronology; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-282-87152-8

9786612871528

1-4411-1532-3

OCLC:

676700702