Encyclopedias: Spartacus Educational: The Emancipation of Women: Elizabeth Fry

Description: Abstract - Born in Norwich in 1780. By the 1820s largely due to her efforts to get prison reform, she had become a well-known personality in Britain. She also campaigned for the homeless in London and improvements in the way patients were treated in mental asylums as well as promoting the reform of workhouses and hospitals with an eye to training nurses. Queen Victoria gave her money to help with her charitable work. Se died in 1845 and although Quakers do not have a funeral service, over a thousand people stood in silence as she was buried at the Society of Friend's graveyard at Barking.