Balfour, Clara. Moral Heroism; or, The Trials and Triumphs of the Great and Good. Houlston and Stoneman.
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Elizabeth Fry
Standard Name: Fry, Elizabeth
Used Form: Elizabeth Gurney Fry
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| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Maria Edgeworth | Among her many social engagements, she attended a house-party at the home of Whig MP and agriculturalist Sir John Sebright
, whose guests included Dr Wollaston
and the science-writers Jane Marcet
and Mary Somerville
... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rosa Nouchette Carey | In her introduction, Carey expresses her wish that her sketches of twelve noble and useful lives be read and studied by women of this generation, and go and do thou likewise be written upon some... |
| Textual Features | Clara Balfour | A chapter which discusses moral heroism . . . in the female character |
| Textual Features | Joanna Baillie | The volume included praise of Elizabeth Fry
, and JB
's own epistle To Mrs Siddons, in which, while warmly praising the great tragedienne's former performances, she argues that even in retirement Siddons still... |
| Literary Setting | Grace Aguilar | It interweaves two stories of a London of two classes remote from each other. In the upper-class story a woman, Miss Lucy Neville (whose supposed quixotism leads to a comparison with activist Elizabeth Fry
)... |
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