The Woman Who Lit Newgate Prison
In 1817, Elizabeth Fry stepped through the iron gates of London's Newgate Prison and into a scene that made seasoned guards flinch. Three hundred women...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Matthew 5:13-20.
In 1817, Elizabeth Fry stepped through the iron gates of London's Newgate Prison and into a scene that made seasoned guards flinch. Three hundred women and their children were crammed into four rooms, sleeping on bare stone, fighting over scraps of food. The warden warned Fry she would be robbed — or worse. She went in anyway. Fry, a Quaker mother of eleven, did not arrive with grand speeches.…
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