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Narrative biography of Elizabeth Fry English Quaker and prison reformer 17801856

Exposed to the horrendous living conditions of women prisoners and their children Elizabeth Fry pledged to improve the lives of societys most desperate people something no one else dared to do

Telling doubters If I dont who will Betsy became one of Englands greatest reformers and one of the nineteenth centurys most beloved people Guided by her Quaker values she led efforts in education and literacy prison reform and together with figures such as William Wilberforce and Thomas Fowell Buxton the abolition of slavery Elizabeth Fry insisted on justice and forever changed the way human beings treat one another