Elizabeth Fry
Pitman, Mrs. E. R.
English
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Famous Women
ELIZABETH FRY.
The next volumes in the Famous Women Series will be:
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Mary Wollstonecraft. By Elizabeth Robins Pennell.
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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.
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, quartered withtheir troops in the city, and the balls and festivities which attendedthe occasional sojourn of Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester,combined to make the quaint old city very gay; while the pronouncedelement of Quakerism and the refining influences of literary societypermeated the generation of that day, and its ordinary life, to anextent not easily conceived in these days of busy locomotion andnew-world travel. Around the institutions of the established Church hadgrown up a people loyal to it, for, as an old cathedral city, the charmof antiquity attached itself to Norwich; while Mrs. Opie and othersknown to literature, exercised an attraction and stimulus in theircircles, consequent upon the possession of high intellectual powers andgood social position. It was in the midst of such surroundings, and witha mind formed by such influences, that Elizabeth Fry, the prisonphilanthropist and Quaker, grew up to young womanhood.
She was descended from Friends by both parents: her father's family hadbeen followers of the tenets of George Fox for more than a hundredyears; while her mother was granddaughter of Robert Barclay, the authorof the Apology for the People called Quakers. It might be supposed
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