Editing Elizabeth Fry (section)

==Death and legacy==
Fry died from a [[stroke]] in [[Ramsgate]], England, on 12 October 1845. Her remains were buried in the Friends' burial ground at [[Barking, London|Barking]].<ref name=quakers/> Seamen of the Ramsgate Coast Guard flew their flag at half mast in respect for Fry; a practice that until this occasion had been officially reserved for the death of a ruling monarch.<ref name=timpson/> More than a thousand people stood in silence during the burial at the Ramsgate memorial.

===Elizabeth Fry Refuge===
With the intention of organising a suitable memorial to Fry, a meeting was held in June 1846, chaired by the Lord Mayor of London.<ref name="fry charity"/> Some early proposals for a statue of Fry—to be placed perhaps in either Westminster Abbey or St Paul's Cathedral—had already been floated. Instead, it was recommended to the meeting that a practical commemoration of her life would be  more fitting. [[Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury|Lord Ashley]], amongst a group of prominent reformers and admirers of Fry, including the [[Edward Stanley (bishop)|Bishop of Norwich]] and the diplomat [[Christian von Bunsen]], promoting adoption of a charitable scheme to honour Fry, told the meeting that founding an [[Poorhouse|asylum]] would be in "perfect harmony with her life, her character, her feelings". Such a project would stand for the nation's gratitude to her and "the sympathy they entertain for her righteous endeavours".<ref name="isba excellent">{{cite book |last1=Isba |first1=Anne |title=The excellent Mrs. Fry: Unlikely heroine |date=2010 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic; Continuum |location=London |isbn=978-1847250391 }}</ref>{{rp|196–197}}

The proposal met with general support and the first Elizabeth Fry refuge opened its doors in 1849 in the London Borough of Hackney <ref name="EF hostel archive">{{cite web |title=Elizabeth Fry Probation Hostel |url= http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/f042e654-957e-4b7c-8f1d-c977820b518a |website= Discovery |publisher=The National Archives|quote=The Elizabeth Fry Refuge was founded in 1849, following a public subscription undertaken in 1846 shortly after the death of the prison reformer Elizabeth Fry (1780–1845).}}</ref> – initially in a temporary location and then, from 1860, in a fine late-17th-century town house nearby at 195 Mare Street, which the refuge purchased and occupied for the next half century.<ref name="Hackney History Journal">{{cite web |title=195 Mare Street |url= https://hackneyhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/HH_Vol_12.pdf |website= Discovery |publisher=The Friends of Hackney Archives |quote=Hester Johanna (b. 1801), lived on in the house until 1860, when it was purchased by the trustees of the Elizabeth Fry Refuge.}}</ref> It was intended to provide temporary shelter for young women discharged from metropolitan gaols or police offices. Funding came via subscriptions from various city companies and private individuals, supplemented by income from the inmates' laundry and needlework. Such training was an important part of the refuge's work.

In 1924, the refuge merged with the Manor House Refuge for the Destitute, in Dalston in Hackney. The hostel soon moved to larger premises in Highbury, Islington and then, in 1958, to Reading, where it remains today.<ref name="fry charity">{{cite web | publisher = The Elizabeth Fry Charity |title= History |url= https://www.elizabethfry.co.uk/History |access-date=11 February 2022 |date=2020|quote= Elizabeth Fry died in 1845. Wishing to commemorate her work, the Lord Mayor of London convened a meeting at which it was decided to found an institute for ex-prisoners in her memory – the Elizabeth Fry Refuge}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title= Summaries of records created by: Fry, Elizabeth, (1780–1845), penal reformer and philanthropist |url= https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F41829 |website= Discovery |publisher=The National Archives}}</ref><ref name="barrett 2021">{{cite web |last1=Barrett |first1=Elizabeth |title=Elizabeth Fry: The Angel of Prisons |url= https://eastendwomensmuseum.org/blog/2021/8/3/vtydufduudc37pku1ahwb9c3ot24xe |website=East End Women's Museum |access-date=11 February 2022 |date= 10 August 2021}}</ref> The original building in Hackney became the CIU New Lansdowne Club but became vacant in 2000 and has fallen into disrepair. [[Hackney Council]], in 2009, was leading efforts to restore the building and bring it back into use. The building did undergo substantial refurbishment work in 2012 but as of July 2013, the entire building is for sale.{{Update inline |reason=What was fate of the building? |date=February 2022}} The building and Elizabeth Fry are commemorated by a plaque at the entrance gateway.{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}

===Memorials===
[[File:Reformers Monument, Kensal Green Cemetery (detail).JPG|thumb|Elizabeth Fry's name on the Reformers’ Monument, [[Kensal Green Cemetery]]]]
[[File:Fry.JPG|thumb|Fry's statue in the [[Old Bailey]]]]
There are a number of memorials which commemorate places where Fry lived. There are plaques located at her birthplace of Gurney Court in Norwich; her childhood home of Earlham Hall; St. Mildred's Court, City of London, where she lived when she was first married; and Arklow House, her final home and place of death in Ramsgate. Her name heads the list on the southern face of the Reformers' Monument in [[Kensal Green Cemetery]], London. She is depicted in stained glass at [[All Saints' Church, Cambridge]] alongside [[Edith Cavell]] and [[Josephine Butler]].

Due to her work as a prison reformer, there are several memorials to Elizabeth Fry. One of the buildings which make up the Home Office headquarters, [[2 Marsham Street]], is named after her. She is also commemorated in prisons and courthouses, including a terracotta bust in the gatehouse of [[HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs]] and a stone statue in the [[Old Bailey]]. The [[Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies]] honours her memory by advocating for women who are in the criminal justice system. They also celebrate and promote a National Elizabeth Fry Week in Canada each May.

Fry is also commemorated in a number of educational and care-based settings. The University of East Anglia's School of Social Work and Psychology is housed in a building named after her. There is an Elizabeth Fry Ward at [[Scarborough General Hospital (England)|Scarborough General Hospital]] in [[North Yorkshire]], [[United Kingdom]]. A road is named for Fry at [[Guilford College]], a school in Greensboro, North Carolina, which was founded by Quakers. There is a bust of Elizabeth Fry located in East Ham Library, in the London Borough of [[Newham]].

Quakers also acknowledge Elizabeth Fry as a prominent member. Her grave at the former [[Society of Friends]] Burial Ground, located off Whiting Avenue in Barking, Essex, was restored and received a new commemorative marble plinth in October 2003. In February 2007, a plaque was erected in her honour at the Friends Meeting House in Upper Goat Lane, Norwich. Fry is also depicted in the [[Quaker Tapestry]], on panels E5 and E6. The Elizabeth Fry room at [[Friends House]], London is named after her.<ref>{{cite web |title=Meeting Rooms |url=https://www.friendshouse.co.uk/meeting-rooms/ |website=Friends House |access-date=3 January 2023}}</ref>

She is also honoured by other Christian denominations. In the Lady Chapel of Manchester's Anglican Cathedral, one of the portrait windows of Noble Women on the west wall of the Chapel features Elizabeth Fry. Fry [[Calendar of saints (Church of England)|is remembered]] in the [[Church of England]] with a [[Commemoration (Anglicanism)|commemoration]] on 12 October.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Calendar|url=https://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-worship/worship-texts-and-resources/common-worship/churchs-year/calendar |access-date=2021-04-08 |website=The Church of England}}</ref>

[[Lydia Sigourney]] met Mrs. Fry at Newgate in 1840 and wrote the poem ''Mrs. Fry at Newgate Prison'' in her honour, this being published in her volume, ''Pleasant Memories of Pleasant Lands'', in 1842. <ref>{{cite book| last =Sigourney|first=Lydia|title=Pleasant Memories of Pleasant Lands| url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=6QZaAAAAMAAJ&pg=GBS.PA301 |section= Mrs. Fry at Newgate Prison| year=1842 |publisher=James Munroe & Company}}</ref>

From 2001 to 2016, Fry was depicted on the reverse of [[Banknotes of the pound sterling|£5 notes]] issued by the [[Bank of England note issues|Bank of England]]. She was shown reading to prisoners at Newgate Prison. The design also incorporated a key, representing the key to the prison which was awarded to Fry in recognition of her work.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2008-10-19 |archive-date=24 March 2006| url= http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/current/current_5.htm |title=Current Banknotes £5 Note (Elizabeth Fry)|website=Bank of England|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060324013619/http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/current/current_5.htm}}</ref> However, as of 2016, Fry's image on these notes was replaced by that of [[Winston Churchill]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Allen|first=Katie|journal=The Guardian|date=26 April 2013 |title=New £5 note replaces Elizabeth Fry with Sir Winston Churchill|access-date=2013-06-29 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/apr/26/winston-churchill-new-five-pound-note}}</ref> She was one of the social reformers honoured on an issue of UK commemorative stamps in 1976.

There is a road in Johannesburg, South Africa named Elizabeth Fry Street after Fry.<ref>{{Cite web|url= http://za.geoview.info/elizabeth_fry_street,23679293w|title=Elizabeth Fry Street|publisher=City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa|website= ZA geoview |access-date= 2019-10-24}}</ref>

Fry's extensive diaries have been transcribed and studied.<ref name=Bruin>{{Cite thesis|date=2005|title=The transcription and notation of Elizabeth Fry's journal 1780–1845|publisher= Brunel Business School, Brunel University|url= http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/6298|type= PhD thesis |last1=Bruin|first1=Mary|id=For references to use of the name ''Betsy'', see pp. 18, 25, 52, 56–59, 63, 66, 70}}</ref>