Famous Women
ELIZABETH FRY.
The next volumes in the Famous Women Series will be:
The Countess of Albany. By Vernon Lee.
Harriet Martineau. By Mrs. Fenwick Miller.
Mary Wollstonecraft. By Elizabeth Robins Pennell.
Already published:
George Eliot. By Miss Blind.
Emily Brontë. By Miss Robinson.
George Sand. By Miss Thomas.
Mary Lamb. By Mrs. Gilchrist.
Margaret Fuller. By Julia Ward Howe.
Maria Edgeworth. By Miss Zimmern.
Elizabeth Fry. By Mrs. E.R. Pitman.
ELIZABETH FRY.
BY
MRS. E.R. PITMAN.
BOSTON:
ROBERTS BROTHERS.
1884.
Copyright, 1884,
By Roberts Brothers.
University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.
CONTENTS.
- CHAPTER I.
Life at Earlham, a Hundred Years Ago
- CHAPTER II.
Life's Earnest Purpose
- CHAPTER III.
St. Mildred's Court
- CHAPTER IV.
A Country Home
- CHAPTER V.
Beginnings at Newgate
- CHAPTER VI.
Newgate Horrors and Newgate Workers
- CHAPTER VII.
Evidence Before the House of Commons
- CHAPTER VIII.
The Gallows and English Laws
- CHAPTER IX.
Convict Ships and Convict Settlements
- CHAPTER X.
Visits to Continental Prisons
- CHAPTER XI.
New Theories of Prison Discipline and Management
- CHAPTER XII.
Mrs. Fry in Domestic and Religious Life
- CHAPTER XIII.
Collateral Good Works
- CHAPTER XIV.
Expansion of the Prison Enterprise—Honors
- CHAPTER XV.
Closing Days of Life
- CHAPTER XVI.
Finis
ELIZABETH FRY.
CHAPTER I.
LIFE AT EARLHAM, A HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
A hundred years ago, Norwich was a remarkable centre of religious,social and intellectual life. The presence of officers, qua