Produced by Mark C. Orton, Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net +Famous Women+ ELIZABETH FRY. _The next volumes in the Famous Women Series will be:_ THE COUNTESS OF ALBANY. By Vernon Lee. HARRIET MARTINEAU. By Mrs. Fenwick Miller. MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT. By Elizabeth Robins Pennell. _Already published:_ GEORGE ELIOT. By Miss Blind. EMILY BRONTE. By Miss Robinson. GEORGE SAND. By Miss Thomas. MARY LAMB. By Mrs. Gilchrist. MARGARET FULLER. By Julia Ward Howe. MARIA EDGEWORTH. By Miss Zimmern. ELIZABETH FRY. By Mrs. E.R. Pitman. [Illustration: Famous Women] ELIZABETH FRY. BY MRS. E.R. PITMAN. BOSTON: ROBERTS BROTHERS. 1884. _Copyright, 1884,_ BY ROBERTS BROTHERS. UNIVERSITY PRESS: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE. LIFE AT EARLHAM, A HUNDRED YEARS AGO. 1 CHAPTER II. LIFE'S EARNEST PURPOSE. 12 CHAPTER III. ST. MILDRED'S COURT. 23 CHAPTER IV. A COUNTRY HOME. 29 CHAPTER V. BEGINNINGS AT NEWGATE. 39 CHAPTER VI. NEWGATE HORRORS AND NEWGATE WORKERS. 52 CHAPTER VII. EVIDENCE BEFORE THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. 75 CHAPTER VIII. THE GALLOWS AND ENGLISH LAWS. 97 CHAPTER IX. CONVICT SHIPS AND CONVICT SETTLEMENTS. 112 CHAPTER X. VISITS TO CONTINENTAL PRISONS. 131 CHAPTER XI. NEW THEORIES OF PRISON DISCIPLINE AND MANAGEMENT. 153 CHAPTER XII. MRS. FRY IN DOMESTIC AND RELIGIOUS LIFE. 182 CHAPTER XIII. COLLATERAL GOOD WORKS. 212 CHAPTER XIV. EXPANSION OF THE PRISON ENTERPRISE--HONORS. 228 CHAPTER XV. CLOSING DAYS OF LIFE. 253 CHAPTER XVI. FINIS. 265 ELIZABETH FRY. CHAPTER I. LIFE AT EARLHAM, A HUNDRED YEARS AGO.