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Some Famous Women

by Louise CREIGHTON (1850 - 1936)

Ch. 6: Elizabeth Fry

Some Famous Women

Louise Creighton (1850-1936) was a British author and women's rights activist. The wife of the Anglican bishop of London, she was the mother of seven children. In this short book, Creighton gives us chapters on such well-known women as Joan of Arc, Florence Nightingale, and Queen Victoria. But we also learn about St. Hilda, the 7th century royal princess who became an influential abbess, the prison reformer, Elizabeth Fry, and Isabella Bird, who thrilled Victorian readers with accounts of her lone travels on horseback to remote and perilous places. - Summary by Pamela Nagami, M.D.

Listen next episodes of Some Famous Women:
Ch. 10: Isabella Bird, afterwards Mrs. Bishop, Pt. 2 , Ch. 10: Isabella Bird, afterwards Mrs. Bishop, Pt. 1 , Ch. 11: Sister Dora , Ch. 12: Queen Victoria, Pt. 1 , Ch. 12: Queen Victoria, Pt. 2 , Ch. 7: Mary Somerville , Ch. 8: Julia Selina Inglis , Ch. 9: Florence Nightingale, Pt. 1 , Ch. 9: Florence Nightingale, Pt. 2