Elizabeth Fry

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

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 )...

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.

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...

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...

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 ...

AO 's friendship with Anne and Annabella Plumptre (daughters of Robert Plumptre , Prebend of Norwich, both of whom grew up to be writers) dated from their shared childhood. Her friendship with the...

Among her few writing friends were Mary Howitt and her relations by marriage Mary and Anna Sewell . She greatly admired without personally knowing Elizabeth Fry , and felt a personal connection to Charlotte Brontë

Hamilton, herself a conservative, set about de-demonizing EF 's political reputation. She had good success in persuading her friends that Mrs Fletcher was not the ferocious Democrat she had been represented, and that she neither...

MH became a friend and correspondent of Frances Burney , and also of the prison reformer Elizabeth Fry , to whom she wrote in early 1819

In Nottingham MH met L. E. L. and perhaps Elizabeth Fry . She was visited by Mary and Dora Wordsworth (wife and daughter of the poet), and later she and her husband stayed with the...

As a Quaker she met William Allen , president of the African Association , who interested her in the welfare of the black colony at Sierra Leone. She was also a friend of James Montgomery

Among her nineteenth-century visitors were Samuel Taylor Coleridge (brought by Joseph Cottle the Bristol bookseller),Algernon Knox (a precursor of late Victorian High Churchmanship), Anna Letitia Barbauld , Elizabeth Fry , and a goodly...

Meeting the prison reformer Elizabeth Fry , MMS discussed with her the danger of celebrity, for females especially, and their respective temptations. She also enjoyed a meeting with William Wilberforce , and later another...

Springing from a distinguished Quaker family, MAS had a large circle of cousins who made a name for themselves in one way or another. Her cousins included the writer Priscilla Wakefield , and the sisters...