Joan Mary Fry (July 27, 1862 – November 25, 1955) Social reformer.

Joan Fry was born July 27, 1862 in London, the daughter of Sir Edward Fry and his wife, Mariabella Hodgkin (1833 – 1930), who were Quakers.

During the First World War, she served as a Quaker Prison Chaplain and helped men who had a conscientious objection to war at their tribunal and in prison.

In 1919, she and other Friends travelled to defeated Germany and organised food distribution networks to defeat the famine.

In 1926, she returned to the United Kingdom and worked to relieve poverty and unemployment.

She gave the 1910 Swarthmore Lecture, entitled The Communion of Life to the Quakers' “London Yearly Meeting”.

She died in London on November 25, 1955

[edit] Source

• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography article by Sybil Oldfield, ‘Fry, Joan Mary (1862–1955)’,, Oxford University Press, 2004 [1] accessed 27 Dec 2006.

[edit] Joan Mary Fry's publications

as listed in the catalogue of the Library of the Religious Society of Friends, London [2]

• The communion of life. - 1910

• For fellowship and freedom : some aspects of the Society of Friends. - 1908, Published in German ?1920: Freundschaft und Freiheit : einige Gesichtspunkte zum Verständnis der Gesellschaft der Freunde. Published in Swedish, 1921: Gemenskap och frihet : några synpunkter till klargörande av Vännernas Sällskap.

• In downcast Germany 1919-1933. - 1944 published in German: Zwischen zwei Weltkriegen in Deutschland : Erinnerungen einer Quäkerin. 1947

• Sidelights on Biblical texts. - [1956]

'Papers in collections'

• Some papers and addresses from the Friends summer school, Birmingham, September, 1899 / Rawnsley, H. D.; Graham, John William, Fry, Edward; Cremer, Pastor; Fry, Joan Mary; Wallis, Mary Anne, 1847-1918; Govan, Horace E.; Grubb, Edward, 1854-1939; Braithwaite, William Charles.

• Christ and peace : a discussion of some fundamental issues raised by the war : essays / St. George Heath, J.; Fry, Joan Mary.

• Echoes from Scarborough : being a series of papers read at the Scarborough Summer School, 1897 / Braithwaite, William Charles; Crosfield, Gulielma; Fry, Joan Mary; Hodgkin, Thomas; Littleboy, William; Richardson, Anne Wakefield; Rowntree, John Stephenson; Newman, Henry Stanley; Wallis, Mary Anne.

• Friends lend a hand in alleviating unemployment : the story of a social experiment extending over 20 years, 1926-1946 / Fry, Joan Mary; Richmond, Arthur Cyril. 1947

[edit] Bibliography

• Ruth Fawell, Joan Mary Fry, Friends Home Service Committee, London, 1959, coll. Quaker Biographies.

Persondata
NAME	Fry, Joan Mary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Joan Fry
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Quaker Social Reformer and relief worker
DATE OF BIRTH	July 27, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH	London
DATE OF DEATH	November 25, 1955
PLACE OF DEATH	London

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