ON a cold January day in 1817, in the gloomy vestibule outside the women’s yard at Newgate, two turnkeys might have been seen arguing with a lady. The row inside the yard was as great as usual. Even ...

They’ll have the rings off your fingers before you reach the stairs.” Fry answered quietly that we had come with food and would not stay long. The guard shrugged, unlocked the wicket, and waved us ...

[Atlantic Monthly Press and Little, Brown, $3.50] IT is hard to write the biography of a really good person — perhaps one of the hardest tasks in the world of letters. There is the official, ...

Three prisoners have a story to tell. It's the story of Elizabeth Fry and how she changed prisons forever. But this is not a history lesson. You'll hear both contemporary and historical language.