The Excellent Mrs Fry: Unlikely Heroine

by Anne Isba

Elizabeth Fry, the great Quaker prison reformer of the nineteenth century, was just thirty two years old when she first entered the notorious women's gaol at Newgate. She was the mother of eight children and would go on to have three more. Yet, despite the demands of family, she would devote the rest of her life - over three more decades - to the welfare of female prisoners and convicts bound for Australia. When her efforts at last helped achieve...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847250394
• ISBN13: 9781847250391
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"