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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A fascinating history of the life of Elizabeth Fry, a pioneer, but also flawed woman. Today she is remembered for her tireless work for prison reform and for aiding her brother petition to abolish slavery; but she battled her own private demons of alcoholism (she felt medicinal) and her lack of maternal tenderness. Her work as a Quaker minister today would be considered feminist, but she was against universal suffrage. A paradox.