Elizabeth Fry [née Gurney]

(1780-1845)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Fry, Elizabeth Gurney, 1780-1845 NRA: Fry Elizabeth (1780-1845) penal reformer and philanthropist DNB: Fry [née Gurney], Elizabeth (1780–1845), penal reformer and philanthropist LBT ID: ElFry1845 VIAF ID: 37707960 LOC ID: n50023419	B/BAP: 1780-05-21 DIED: 1845-10-13
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The daughter of the Quaker banker John Gurney (1749-1809), she was married Joseph Fry in 1800 and was a philanthropist and prison reformer.
REFERENCES TO Elizabeth Fry [née Gurney]: Sydney Smith to Lady Mary Bennet, [July 1818] in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 2 Sydney Smith to Lady Mary Bennet, [July? 1818] in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 5 Sydney Smith to Lady Mary Bennet, [October or November 1821] in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 3 Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Charles Lamb, [March? 1825] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Amelia Opie to Robert Southey, 8 June 1829 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 2: ¶ 3 ¶ n1 Amelia Opie to Robert Southey, 24 November 1829 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 4 [John Mitford], “Lady Blessington's Conversations of Lord Byron” in The Gentleman’s Magazine NS 1 (April 1834) 347-58 Found 1: ¶ 37 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XXXII. 1829 Found 1: ¶ n1 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Charles Lamb IX Found 1: ¶ 4 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Chapter VII Found 1: ¶ 20 Letters 1817 Letters 1822 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1825