Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry by Elizabeth Fry, Kathari... - 9781108030359

Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth FryWith Extracts from Her Journal and Letters\nAuthor(s): Elizabeth Fry, Katharine Fry, Rachel Elizabeth Cresswell\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108030359, 978-1108030359\nSynopsis\nElizabeth Fry (ne Gurney, [tel] 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 t.