Evidence: | Officials invited into Newgate to see the success of E. Fry's new prison routine: 'In compliance with this appointment, the Lord Mayor, the Sheriffs and several of the Aldermen attended. The prisoners were assembled together, and it being requested that no alteration in their usual practice might take place, one of the ladies read a chapter in the Bibe, and then the females proceeded to their various avocations. Their attention during the time of reading; their orderly and sober deportment, their decent dress, the absence of everything like tumult, noise or contention, the obedience, and the respect shown by them, and the cheerfulness visible in their countenances and manners, conspired to excite the astonishment and admiration of their visitors' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Apr 1817 and 31 May 1817 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | morning | ||||||||||
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, Lord Mayor, sheriffs and Aldermen of the City of London |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | [n/a] |
Title: | Bible |
Genre: | Bible |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 23130 | |
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: | 127 | |
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. 127, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=23130, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
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