Thanks for the history lesson. She was a really remarkable woman. It is a little chilling to think what it was like for imprisoned women before the changes she insisted be made. Brrr.

it was 2016 that the new £5 note was released into circulation with the image of Winston Churchill on the reverse, replacing the previous £5 note that featured the image of Elizabeth Fry, that alone amazes me about how quickly we forget.

Fry is my hero. I learnt about her as a child as I went to a Quaker school, and was so disappointed when she was removed from the £5 note.
Shes a feminist hero, and yet another example of how history overlooks women who have changed the shape of the modern world.
Everyone is out here fawning over Elon Musk and a million other undeserving silver-spoon moids, while women can literally revolutionise the way we do things and 99% of people couldn't name them.

Its so shameful that we've gone so far backwards in such a short period of time.

I'm sorry, Elizabeth.

all the more an outrage that the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies has turned its back on women...as exposed by the formidable Heather Mason https://twitter.com/Mason134211f/status/1400130437595475975

This is really interesting

Just started the the prison mockumentary Hard Cell on Netflix. Catherine Tate gives a shout out to Elizabeth Fry in the first episode!

i'd like to say that I hope that by the 200th anniversary we will have achieved enough to make prisons actually single sex again but I fear that the more realistic option is that by 2023 there will be even more men in women's prisons than ever. :( at least elizabeth isn't around to see the destruction of her life's work. RIP shero