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Betsy
The Dramatic Biography of Prison Reformer Elizabeth Fry
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Price: $13.99 ISBN: 978-0-8254-6092-0 Format: Paperback Availability: In stock | ||
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In 1816, 36-year-old Elizabeth (Betsy) Fry walked alone into the horrific Newgate Gaol (jail) as a minister of the Society of Friends (Quakers). The transformation she brought to the female inmates there propelled her onto the stage of world history. This is Betsy's story, a woman whose life and commitment still inspires Christians to stand up for their beliefs and the rights and respect due to even the poorest and most neglected of God's children.
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Review By: Ruth G. Butler, congregational libraries today - May 1, 2007
Jean Hatton has written a remarkable story of a courageous, crusading woman of the nineteenth century. She has given us an in-depth picture of the life of women in the England of that era, as well as a fine portrait of this remarkable, unflappable woman. The reader cannot help but have a great sympathy and admiration for Betsy Fry, who gave so much of herself to bring about prison reform for her generation of women.