Elizabeth Fry

SSE edited Fisher's Drawing-Room Scrapbook at some point following LEL 's death in 1838. In this she voiced her own admiration of Elizabeth Fry , as well as contributing much of the verse for the years 1843-45.

The Athenæum called HMalways natural, lively, and dramatic, and supposed that many readers might never suspect her didactic purpose. By this tale, HM claimed, Elizabeth Fry and her brother J. J. Gurney

MAS adds a new aesthetic category, the contemplative sublime, alongside the Burke an or terrible sublime and other categories related to the Burkean beautiful. She derives her thinking from women as well as men. In...

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 )...

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.

It exceeded even the high sales of Coelebs. 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...

She presented a copy of this book (a compilation from her earlier writings on prayer) to Elizabeth Fry .

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...

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...

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...

A chapter which discusses moral heroism . . . in the female character exemplifies pious and admirable female behaviour in the figures of the letter-writer Rachael Russell and the prison reformer Elizabeth Fry ...

In 1856, CR published an historical short story, The Lost Titian, in The Crayon, a small magazine published in New York.. She also wrote some non-fiction on Italian writers (including...

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. On 6 December AO wrote to Elizabeth Fry denying...

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...

CY edited Biographies of Good Women, Chiefly by Contributors to The Monthly Packet: her subjects include public activists like Elizabeth Fry and Hannah More .