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ROSE, JUNE: : ELIZABETH FRY: A Biography

LONDON.MACMILLAN,1980.

ISBN 0333238060.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/G+.Neat,blue ink handwritten inscrptn: Society of Friends Library Swarthmore,Plymouth 1980,to front free endpaper,and another similar handwritten notation to title page too,no price-clip to dw/dj.[The original premises have now changed it's original name 'The Swarthmore' and now changed to a Language School and the Society has moved into smaller adjacent premises.] Bright,glossy, red background with b/w portrait illustration of subject,to front panel of dw/dj,with white lettering,rear panel red without text or illustration.Some negligible creasing to edges and corners of dw/dj with spine/backstrip heavily sunned and faded.Some laminate curling/shrinkage along edge,to head of spine/backstrip with miniscule loss.Top edges slightly discoloured with dust-soiling and some sporadic spotting/foxing,fore-edges brighter and cleaner - without spotting or foxing,but some inevitable light grubbing/ thumbing; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.Bright,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain black cloth boards with slightly dulled,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and facsimile b/w handwriting reproduction of Elizabeth Gurney's journal entry for 7 Feb, 1798.(This entry was 3 days after first meeting William Savery,an American Quaker and one of her most important early influences in her life.) UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn,1-218pp [paginated] includes 10 chapters,4pp contemporary b/w plates/illus in 2 blocks of 2pp apiece,between pp82/3 and pp 114/15 respectively,sources,a bibliography and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication with b/w illustrated frntis (Plashet House,drawn by Katherine Fry,1879) to verso,a contents list/table with illus list/table to it's reverse, acknowledgements,2 separate pages genealogy trees (FRY & GURNEY),and a prologue. See also book ID rja34099 'OBSERVATIONS ON THE VISITING,SUPERINTENDENCE,AND GOVERNMENT OF FEMALE PRISONERS' LONDON.JOHN AND ARTHUR ARCH,CORNHILL/HATCHARD & SON,PICADILLY,& by S.WILKIN,NORWICH,1827. and also rja540115 [Margaret Fell - widowed and then married Fox] and also rja540415 [Elizabeth Fry] for other related Quaker biographies. 1980 sees the bicentenary of the birth of one of the most influential and enigmatic women in English history Elizabeth Fry, mother of 11 children and a Quaker minister,drew the world's attention to the plight of women in prison,instituted an order of nursing sisters and becam the figurehead of much of the philanthropic endeavour in the first half of the 19thC. 'The genius of good,' as the Marquess of Lansdowne described Betsy Fry in parliament,became a living legend,a symbol of saintliness and virtue.The public's awe and admiration is reflected in the titles of early biographies and tracts about her - 'Illustrious Woman','Woman of Worth','Angel of Prisons.' At the height of her fame and popularity,to see Mrs. Fry reading to the prisoners of Newgate was considered 'one of the sights of London.' Yet even during her lifetime this remarkable woman aroused hostility as well as admiration.Quakers found her 'worldliness' disquieting; not all of her fellow penal reformers approved of her unorthodox ways and the 'irregular authority' conferred upon her and her lady prison visitors; her family felt neglected. Elizabeth Fry herself was tortured throughout her life by self-doubt and anxiety,torn between the opposing demands of her family,her religion and her public, and disturbed by her own attraction to 'the high life.' Here,for the first time,is a biography, based on the unexpurgated version of Elizabeth Fry's journals,that portrays the 'saint' as she realy was.To celebrate the bicentenary,June Rose pays this precursor of the feminist movement the greatest tribute of all by removing Elizabeth Fry from her pedestal and reawakening our interest in this complex,contradictory, almost 'modern' personality,who defied the conventions of her age to fulfil her destiny. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** This item offered P+p included.Offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

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