While it is Yet Day: A Biography of Elizabeth Fry

While It Is Yet Day tells the remarkable story of Elizabeth Fry, born in 1780 into a wealthy Quaker family, whose pioneering of prison reform is her most enduring legacy. Averil Douglas Opperman's enthralling biography, drawing on diaries and private correspondence, sheds new light on the woman whose portrait famously appears on the £5 note. Although her greatest achievement was in prison reform, she also formalised nursing with her Fry's Nurses, some of whom went with Florence Nightingale to the Crimea. Despite her shyness Elizabeth Fry was not afraid to challenge anyone - thieves, politicians and royalty - to get her way.