Neta Jackson

The thieves of tyburn square: introducing elizabeth fry - Neta Jackson

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• THE THIEVES OF TYBURN SQUARE
• Introducing Elizabeth Fry -Betsey and Loren Maxwell are on their own in early nineteenth-century England after their mother is deported to New South Wales for stealing two silver candlesticks
• Faced with few options
• The young Maxwells are forced to live and work in a gloomy London workhouse
• Betsey and her brother have a terrible time enduring the harsh treatment and strict rules of the workhouse overseers
• Then Loren sees an opportunity to escape
• And the pair soon find themselves back on the dangerous streets of London-with only a stolen pouch of money to support them
• Their new life takes a disastrous turn when Betsey and Loren are jailed for pickpocketing in Tyburn Square
• Betsey is terrified that she'll never see her brother or mother again
• But a visit from a kind Quaker woman named Elizabeth Fry gives her courage

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