Excerpt from Elizabeth Fry: The Angel of the Prisons Thinking these things, I am minded to tell, briefly and simply, a life-story which has been told many times before, yet which is not today as well known as it deserves to be: the story of the Angel of the Prisons. We know her as Elizabeth Fry, that being her married name, and the one she bore during two 'thirds of her life; her maiden name was Eliza beth Gurney. She was born in 1780, a year of many notable happenings. In America, that year, Major Andre was hanged as a British spy, and the Count de Rochambeau arrived in Rhode Island with a French army. In England, the manufacture of cotton cloth was begun at Man chester. In France, the use of torture in public trials was abolished by the King, Louis XVI, who was to lose his life a few years later In the terrible French Revolution. Among all these notable events, the birth of one girl baby more or less may seem a small matter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.