The Angel of Prisons

ElizabethFry

1780 — 1845 · QUAKER · REFORMER

A shy, devout girl from a Norwich banking family who walked into the filth of Newgate Prison — and would not look away. This is the life that reshaped how Britain treats its prisoners.

Portrait of Elizabeth Fry
Elizabeth Fry - Project Gutenberg
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1780
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A Georgian prison scene by William Hogarth
The world Fry walked into: a debtors' prison scene from William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress (1735). Filth, despair, and no separation of the sexes were the norm.