'Elizabeth Fry', c1843, (1942). Portrait of Elizabeth Fry (1780-1845), English prison reformer, social reformer, Quaker, and Christian philanthropist. Fry successfully campaigned for new legislation to make the treatment of prisoners more humane. From "English Women", by Edith Sitwell. [Collins, London, 1942]

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