1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459260303321

Autore

Isba Anne

Titolo

The excellent Mrs. Fry : unlikely heroine / / Anne Isba

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Continuum, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

1-282-87152-8

9786612871528

1-4411-1532-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 p.)

Disciplina

365.7092

Soggetti

Prison reformers - Great Britain

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of illustrations; Foreword; Introduction; PART ONE: AN UNLIKELY HEROINE; PART TWO: THE NEWGATE EXPERIMENT; PART THREE: SPREADING THE WORD; PART FOUR: THE FINAL YEARS; Chronology; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Elizabeth Fry, the great Quaker prison reformer of the nineteenth century, was just thirty two years old when she first entered the notorious women's gaol at Newgate. She was the mother of eight children and would go on to have three more. Yet, despite the demands of family, she would devote the rest of her life - over three more decades - to the welfare of female prisoners and convicts bound for Australia. When her efforts at last helped achieve changes to British law, Fry turned her attention to winning the hearts and minds of the great and good on continental Europe. She treated all people



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910698971803321

Titolo

FDIC historical statistics on banking [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Federal Deposit Insurance Corp

Soggetti

Banks and banking - United States

Statistics.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Description based on: 1934-1996; title from home page (viewed Aug. 6, 1999).

Latest issue consulted: 1934-2007.

Sommario/riassunto

Contains annual financial and structure data on FDIC-insured banks and savings institutions, beginning in 1934. Also includes state-level tables, as well as annual lists of failed commercial banks and savings institutions.