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Elizabeth Fry
1844 - Ramsgate
At Ramsgate, where the sea presses against the walls, a prison reformer writes what the committees and charities never saw.
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Elizabeth Fry
1844 - Ramsgate
At Ramsgate, where the sea presses against the walls, a prison reformer writes what the committees and charities never saw.
