The daughter of a Victorian Quaker family, Elizabeth Fry was 18 when she heard a sermon on justice—a message that became a life-changing catalyst for thousands of women and children! Elizabeth began collecting clothes for the poor, visiting the sick, even having Sunday school in her home to teach children to read. Urged to visit London’s Newgate Prison, she found hundreds of women and children in appalling conditions, resulting in her impassioned advocacy for prison reform. She became the first

In the early 1800s, the horrific conditions and brutality of the English prison system was taken for granted—with the conditions ignored! Elizabeth Fry was determined to do something about it. She was a Quaker, and was passionate about reading the Bible herself, and making the Bible accessible to those in need. The daughter of a prominent banking family and the wife of a successful tea dealer, she used her influence to visit female prisoners in London’s Newgate Prison—where she discovered appall