creators_name: Franklin, Jane
creators_name: Fry, Elizabeth
type: other
datestamp: 2008-06-11 04:41:56
lastmod: 2008-07-18 10:59:13
metadata_visibility: show
title: Letter from Jane Franklin in Van Diemen's Land 1841 to Elizabeth Fry in England, and her reply, 1842
ispublished: unpub
subjects: 440200
subjects: 430100
full_text_status: public
keywords: Royal Society  of Tasmania, Tasmania, social history, Australia, Jane Franklin, Elizabeth Fry, female convicts, orphan school, Hobart, children, assignment
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abstract: Letter from Jane Franklin to Elizabeth Fry and her reply. Jane Franklin has not written before because she has nothing positive to say about the women prisoners and has done little to improve the situation. The circumstances do not assist with rehabilitation. Jane Franklin does not approve of the assignment system because it means that female convicts are in the towns where there is temptation. They look after colonial children and are a probable bad influence. There are also problems with the factory because of the bad influences of the women on each other and because they have plenty of food and no work to do. Regarding the orphan school, Jane Franklin thinks it harmful that convict children and those of free but destitute parents are housed together.
date_type: published
publisher: University of Tasmania Library Special and Rare Materials Collection
place_of_pub: Australia
thesis_type: UNSPECIFIED
official_url: http://www.utas.edu.au/library/exhibitions/quaker/index.html
citation: Franklin, Jane and Fry, Elizabeth Letter from Jane Franklin in Van Diemen's Land 1841 to Elizabeth Fry in England, and her reply, 1842. University of Tasmania Library Special and Rare Materials Collection, Australia. (Unpublished)
document_url: http://eprints.utas.edu.au/6503/1/rs_16_1(2).pdf
document_url: http://eprints.utas.edu.au/6503/2/rs_16_1(3).pdf
document_url: http://eprints.utas.edu.au/6503/3/eliz_fry.jpg