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Elizabeth Fry (née Gurney; 21 May 1780 – 12 October 1845), sometimes referred to as Betsy Fry, [1] [2] [3] was an English prison reformer, social reformer, philanthropist and Quaker. Fry was a major driving force behind new legislation to improve the treatment of prisoners, especially female inmates, and as such has been called the "Angel of ...
Elizabeth Fry Page (née, Fry; 1865 – September 3, 1943) was an American author and editor associated with the South.A co-founder of the Tennessee Woman's Press and Authors' Club, she served as the Poet Laureate of the Tennessee division of the Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.) and that of the Tennessee Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC).
The poem is often attributed to anonymous or incorrect sources, such as the Hopi and Navajo tribes. [1]: 423 The most notable claimant was Mary Elizabeth Frye (1905–2004), who often handed out xeroxed copies of the poem with her name attached.
Elizabeth was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on February 16, 1812, in the Germantown area. Her parents were James Ashmead and Eve Frey (Fry). Elizabeth was baptized at St. Michael's Lutheran Church in Germantown on May 18, 1812. She had five older siblings, (John, William, Anna, James and Charles) and two younger siblings (Catherine and ...
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry tells of a man's walk from Devon to Berwick-upon-Tweed to visit his dying friend. We look at whether it's based on a true story.
Apart from her novels, she wrote some non-fiction books, including a biography of Elizabeth Fry (who was her husband's great-grandmother) in 1950, [9] a book about the orchestra, a history of the Girl Guides and a book of Camp Fire Songs (1944).
More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.
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