Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry
With Extracts from Her Journal and Letters

This memoir of philanthropist, prison reformer and Quaker Elizabeth Fry (1780–1845) was published by her daughters in 1847.

Elizabeth Fry (Author), Katharine Fry (Edited by), Rachel Elizabeth Cresswell (Edited by)

9781108030359, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 7 July 2011

512 pages, 1 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 2.9 cm, 0.65 kg

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. Volume 1 ends in 1825.

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.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]