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Isba Anne |
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Titolo |
The excellent Mrs. Fry : unlikely heroine / / Anne Isba |
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London, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Continuum, , 2010 |
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©2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-87152-8 |
9786612871528 |
1-4411-1532-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (263 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Prison reformers - Great Britain |
Great Britain Social conditions 19th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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