Evidence: | Day on which E. Fry read the new rules to the female prisoners at Newgate: 'when this business was concluded, one of the visitors read aloud the 15th chapter of Luke - the parable of the barren fig tree, seeming applicable to the audience' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Apr 1817 and 30 Apr 1817 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London specific address: Newgate Gaol other location: prison |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Elizabeth Fry |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 21 May 1780 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | wife of merchant |
Religion: | Quaker |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
female prisoners, ladies - members of the newly formed prison visiting society |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | [n/a] |
Title: | Bible (New Testament) |
Genre: | Bible |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 23129 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Thomas Fowell Buxton | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | An inquiry whether crime and misery are produced or prevented by our present system of prison discipline | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1818 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 126 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Thomas Fowell Buxton, An inquiry whether crime and misery are produced or prevented by our present system of prison discipline (London, 1818), p. 126, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=23129, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
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