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FRY, ELIZABETH: : OBSERVATIONS ON THE VISITING, SUPERINTENDENCE, AND GOVERNMENT OF FEMALE PRISONERS. [A SIGNED Association Copy.]

LONDON.JOHN AND ARTHUR ARCH,CORNHILL/HATCHARD & SON,PICADILLY,& by S.WILKIN,NORWICH,1827., 1827

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UK,12mo HB,1st edn.(SIGNED Association copy.)No owner's inscrptn,but a neat, handwritten blue/black ink copperplate written,dated,familial,gift presentation inscrptn: 'Catherine Thringston from her affecte Cousin Maria Fox.8/4 Mo 1827.' to ffe.Publisher's original,plain brown card oards,slightly grubbed,marked and aged; with inevitable,but negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners.Corners minimally bumped and some (s)light rubbing to some extremities,paper title label (FRY - ON VISITING PRISONS) towards top of spine/ backstrip,which also has an approx 2" split to rear board's spine/backstrip edge at top - but still attached and in situ.To foot of same,a white circular,pinked-edged numbered (45) adhesive sticker.To front pastedown, 'West Devon Monthly Meeting.FRIENDS LIBRARY,PLYMOUTH',contemporary(?) bookplate,WITHOUT the usual library notation or numbers - pastedowns heavily aged/toned,as usual/normal.No other library marks/indications.Top edge,aged and darkened,fore-edges also aged but much brighter and cleaner; contents bright, tight and clean; with negligible foxing, top+fore-edges all untrimmed.Described honestly and fairly.UK,slim 12mo HB,1st edn,2-76pp [paginated] includes 10 chapters (introduction+conclusion included),plus [unpaginated] title page and contents list/table.Author's first work. Elizabeth Fry's connection with prisons began early,at the age of fifteen when she became deeply interested in the House of Correction at Norwich and persuaded her father to let her visit it.In 1813,at the instigation of Stephen Grellet,an itinerant American Quaker of French birth,she visited Newgate Prison and turned her attention particularly,to the state of female prisoners there.Married in 1800,and with ten confinements between 1801 and 1816, curtailed her philanthropic activities until 1817.(Her husband's difficulties in business led to the need to disperse most of her children among relatives,the year before.)Returning to Newgate Prison,she tackled the problem of helping women inmates and their children. Overcoming the Governor's objections,she arranged for a room in the prison to be set aside for a school and for the prisoners themselves to co-operate in running it under supervision by visiting 'ladies'.At the back of her mind was an attempt to prepare the prisoners for the day of their release,but her primary need was to inject order into chaos and raise the prisoners' self-respect.In less than a year she had triumphed.In 1818 she was invited to give evidence before the House of Commons Committee on Prisons,the first woman to appear before any such committee - and with great effect. [Anna Maria Fox was the eldest child of Robert Were Fox FRS (April 26,1789 - July 25, 1877) and Maria Barclay (1785 - 1858), his wife.Her father,Robert Were Fox FRS (1789 - 1877),was a member of the Quaker Fox family of Falmouth and her mother Maria (1785 - 1858),of the Quaker Barclay family of Bury Hill,near Dorking.As a Quaker,her father participated in anti-slavery and educational campaigns.Chief among these was the founding of the Royal Cornish Polytechnic Society,conceived by Anna Maria Fox.Maria's siblings were Barclay Fox (September 6,1817 - March 10,1855) and Caroline Fox (May 24,1819 - January 12,1871).Between the three,the idea for the foundation of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society,Falmouth,was created in 1832,when they were 17,16 and 13, respectively.The family lived at Rosehill and Penjerrick.She never married With her sister,Caroline,she raised the four sons of her brother,Barclay,after the death of their parents.Anna Maria outlived her sister by sixteen years.She died,aged 81 on November 18,1897 and was buried at the Quaker Burial Ground in Budock,in the same plot as her sister,Caroline.Her maternal grandmother was a first cousin of Elizabeth Fry.(Wiki)] Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item, for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - 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 or FREE. ** 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.

UK,12mo HB,1st edn.[SIGNED Association Copy.]
'Catherine Thringston from her affecte Cousin Maria Fox.8/4 Mo 1827.'

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