Medienkombination, Englisch, 1048 Seiten, Format (B × H): 250 mm x 324 mm, Gewicht: 1600 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century
With Extracts from Her Journal and Letters
Medienkombination, Englisch, 1048 Seiten, Format (B × H): 250 mm x 324 mm, Gewicht: 1600 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century
ISBN: 978-1-108-03037-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
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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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.
