The Quaker Who Read to Prisoners
In 1813, Elizabeth Fry stepped through the iron gates of London's Newgate Prison and found three hundred women and children crammed into two wards. The...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Isaiah 42:1-9.
In 1813, Elizabeth Fry stepped through the iron gates of London's Newgate Prison and found three hundred women and children crammed into two wards. The stench was unbearable. The noise was chaos. Guards warned her not to enter — these women were beyond saving, they said. Bruised reeds, every one of them. Fry didn't arrive with a whip or a megaphone.…
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