Elizabeth Fry

Standard Name: Fry, Elizabeth
Used Form: Elizabeth Gurney Fry

Connections

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Millicent Garrett Fawcett
The history begins with effusive praise for Mary Wollstonecraft's efforts in the late 1700s on behalf of women, as well as for her sterling character (the latter being an act or recuperation). MGF goes on...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Heyrick
EH enlarges on the terrible state of the Irish peasantry, with unemployment surpassing four million and many deaths from starvation. She comments on the Vagrancy Act of 21 June 1824; on the fact that prison...
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Caroline Norton
The early part of the work summarizing the legal position of women reads much like Barbara Leigh Smith 's A Brief Summary in Plain Language of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women, published the...
Textual Production Amelia Opie
AO was an indefatigable letter-writer. Her surviving correspondence at the Huntington Library includes 331 letters (1794-1850). Most are written by her to her cousin Eliza (Alderson) Briggs or her husband; a few are from her...
Textual Production Christina Rossetti
In 1856, CR published an historical short story, The Lost Titian, in The Crayon, a small magazine published in New York.
Smulders, Sharon. Christina Rossetti Revisited. Twayne.
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Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking.
176-9
. She also wrote some non-fiction on Italian writers (including...
Textual Production Fanny Kemble
In the third volume of this memoir, she recalls a visit to Newgate in 1831 with Elizabeth Fry , remarking about the prisoners, I felt broken-hearted for them, . . . and ashamed for us...
Textual Production Charlotte Yonge
CY edited Biographies of Good Women, Chiefly by Contributors to The Monthly Packet: her subjects include public activists like Elizabeth Fry and Hannah More .
Battiscombe, Georgina, and E. M. Delafield. Charlotte Mary Yonge: The Story of an Uneventful Life. Constable and Company.
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Coleridge, Christabel. Charlotte Mary Yonge: Her Life and Letters. Macmillan and Co.
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Textual Production Amelia Opie
The publisher was said to have offered her a thousand pounds for this novel and had gone so far as to advertise it for sale.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
On 6 December AO wrote to Elizabeth Fry denying...
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...
Textual Features Clara Balfour
A chapter which discusses moral heroism . . . in the female character
Balfour, Clara. Moral Heroism; or, The Trials and Triumphs of the Great and Good. Houlston and Stoneman.
prelims
exemplifies pious and admirable female behaviour in the figures of the letter-writer Rachael Russell and the prison reformer Elizabeth Fry ...
Textual Features Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Her authors run from Jane Austen and some contemporaries to Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Harriet Martineau . Elizabeth Fry , Mary Carpenter , and Florence Nightingale represent philanthropy, Caroline Herschel and Mary Somerville science, and...
Reception Lucy Walford
Her portraits of these women have a certain sameness and smack of her treatment of fictional heroines. This novelistic style is well demonstrated in the opening of Elizabeth Fry 's biography, when LW describes her...
Publishing Lucy Walford
LW 's lives of Jane Taylor , Elizabeth Fry , Hannah More , and Mary Somerville , each originally printed in Blackwood's Magazine, appeared together as Four Biographies from Blackwood in Edinburgh and London.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Publishing Hannah More
It exceeded even the high sales of Coelebs.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press.
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In 1818 More presented a copy of it to the reformer Elizabeth Fry , incribed with her admiration for Fry's acting out of Christ's commands...

Timeline

1813: Elizabeth Gurney Fry first visited Newgate...

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1813

Elizabeth Gurney Fry first visited Newgate Prison in London; horrified at conditions there, she began providing food and education for female and child prisoners, and agitated for prison reform.

1821: Elizabeth Fry founded the British Society...

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1821

Elizabeth Fry founded the British Society of Ladies for Promoting the Reformation of Female Prisoners.

1840: The Society of Protestant Sisters of Charity...

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1840

The Society of Protestant Sisters of Charity (Nursing Sisters) was founded as a secular nursing order in London, inspired by Quaker Elizabeth Gurney Fry .

April 1847: Two of Elizabeth Fry's daughters, Katherine...

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April 1847

Two of Elizabeth Fry 's daughters, Katherine Fry and R. E. Cresswell , completed their account of the activist's life in the two-volume Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry ; with Extracts from Her Journals and Letters.

By 18 August 1888: Lucy Walford published Four Biographies from...

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By 18 August 1888

Lucy Walford published Four Biographies from Blackwood's.

19 July 1904: King Edward VII laid the foundation stone...

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19 July 1904

King Edward VII laid the foundation stone for Liverpool Cathedral, built to the designs of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott .

Texts

Opie, Amelia. Letter to Elizabeth Fry.
Fry, Elizabeth. Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry. Editors Fry, Katharine and Rachel Elizabeth Cresswell, Henry Longstreth, 1847.