Elizabeth Fry - A Biography

BY JUNE ROSE

Brief Description:
Elizabeth fry (1740-1845) is one of the best-known Quakers, mostly for her pioneering work in penal reform. This biography, based on a close reading of her journals, looks at her as a whole and complicated person. The tireless worker who was not always available to her own large family, was (for the time) (for the time) an extravagant and unorthodox Quaker. She also suffered from depression and became addicted to laudanum.

Britain Yearly Meeting 1994 218 PP. Paper

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