Elizabeth Fry
Subtitle: a Quaker life : selected letters and writings
By: introduced and edited by Gil Skidmore.
Contributors: Skidmore, Gil.; International Sacred Literature Trust.
Series: The sacred literature series
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
Subjects: Fry, Elizabeth Gurney, -- 1780-1845.; Fry, Elizabeth Gurney, -- 1780-1845 -- Correspondence.; Prison reformers -- Great Britain -- Biography.; Quakers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Genres: Correspondence.; Biography.
Description: "Elizabeth Fry (1780-1845) is well known for her work for prison reform. But less well known is how her Quaker faith inspired that work, leading her to see the light within the impoverished and imprisoned. With Elizabeth Fry: A Quaker Life, noted Quaker historian Gil Skidmore has brought together Fry's essential writings - some previously unpublished - from her journals, letters, and more general works. The result is a rich portrait of the struggles and anxieties behind the public persona of this "Quaker saint.""--Jacket.
Notes: "Published in cooperation with the International Sacred Literature Trust."