Thursday, February 2, 2023

Guelph Scandals

This is Elizabeth Jane Fry, relative of Elizabeth Fry the English Prison reformer.

Elizabeth was born 1794. She came to Guelph in 1844 and lived to be 99, passing away in 1893

Elizabeth Jane was a herbalist, and people from all over Wellington County would come to her to cure their ailments.

I am particularly fond of this picture of her because to me it appears she has just read something dreadfully scandalous in that book that's on her lap and is showing her shock with that hand on cheek gesture.

This is exactly how I hope you will react when you take in a performance of "Scandalous Guelph"