Born: 21 May 1780, Norwich Died October 12, 1845. Ramsgate. British philanthropist and European prison reform advocate. He also worked hard to improve the British hospital system and the treatment of the mentally ill. Born into a wealthy Quaker banker family, she married Joseph Fry, a London merchant, in 1800. She took care of her large family and engaged in volunteer work for the poor, and in 1811 was recognized as a Quaker "chaplain." She traveled to Scotland, northern England, Ireland, and various European countries, inspecting prisons in various locations and compiling reports on them. Her proposals for Newgate Prison included separate confinement for men and women, separation by sentence, the assignment of female warders for female prisoners, religious and secular education, and useful labor. Fry's various proposals for improvement were gradually implemented in Europe. fly Frey, Dagobert Born: April 23, 1883 in Vienna Died: May 13, 1962. Stuttgart Austrian art historian. Studied architecture at the Vienna University of Technology and art history at the University of Vienna. In 1921 he was director of the State Institute for Fine Arts, and from 1931 to 1945 he was a professor at the University of Breslau, and from 1952 he was a professor at the University of Stuttgart. Building on the tradition of the Vienna School, which aimed to combine art history and intellectual history, he contributed to the foundations of comparative art studies. His main works are Gothic and Renaissance as the Foundations of the Modern Worldview (1929) and Grundlegung zu einer vergleichenden Kunstwissenschaft (49). fly Fry, Edwin Maxwell Born: August 2, 1899, Wallasey, Cheshire [Died] September 3, 1987. Cotherston, Durham. British modern architect and leader of the International Style. Studied under C. Rayleigh at the University of Liverpool. From 1934 to 1936, he collaborated with W. Gropius, designing Impington Village College (1936) in Cambridgeshire. From 1945 onwards, he designed a variety of buildings, including schools, in Nigeria and Ghana. From 1951 to 1954, he collaborated with Le Corbusier, serving as chief architect for the construction of Chandigarh, the capital of the Indian state of Punjab. His main work is Tropical Architecture in the Dry and Humid Zones (1964). fly Fry, Christopher Born: December 18, 1907, Bristol [Died] June 30, 2005, Chichester British playwright. After working as a teacher and actor, he began his writing career by writing religious verse plays. He established his reputation with his witty verse comedy A Phoenix Too Frequent (1946). He published a succession of brilliant verse plays, and became a central figure in the revival of verse drama after World War II. His representative works include The Lady's Not for Burning (1948), Venus Observed (1950), and The Dark is Light Enough (1954). He also co-wrote the screenplays for Ben-Hur (1959) and other films. fly Frye, Herman Northrop Born: July 14, 1912 in Sherbrooke, Quebec [died] January 23, 1991, Toronto Canadian critic. Educated at both Toronto and Oxford universities, he is currently a professor at the University of Toronto. He investigated literary forms and categories, and made a great contribution to the establishment of mythological criticism from the standpoint of myth as the constitutive principle of literature. His major work is Anatomy of Criticism (1957), and he has written many books, including A Natural Perspective (65) and Fools of Time (67), both about Shakespeare, The Critical Path (71), and The Great Code (82). fly Fry, Roger Eliot Born: 14 December 1866, London Died: September 9, 1934, London. British painter and art critic. He studied natural science at university but switched to painting, and from 1901 onwards, he advocated orthodox art theory in publications such as The Athenaeum and The Burlington Magazine. In 1906, he was impressed by Cézanne, and together with C. Bell and others, he worked to introduce Post-Impressionism to Britain. He served as director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York from 1905 to 1910, and became a professor at Cambridge University in 1933. His main works include Vision and Design (1920), Cézanne (27), and Some Questions in Aesthetics (34). fly Frey, Adolf Born: February 18, 1855 in Küttigen near Aarau [Died] February 12, 1920, Zurich Swiss author and literary historian. Professor at the University of Zurich from 1898 to 1910. He is known for his lyric poetry in standard German and Swiss dialect, biographies of his friends G. Keller and CF Meyer, and realistic novels based on Swiss history. fly frit; fried A cooking method in Western cuisine in which seafood, meat, vegetables, eggs, etc. are deep-fried either without a batter or with various batters. In Japan, seafood is often deep-fried by coating it in batters of flour, beaten eggs, and breadcrumbs in that order. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia About Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia Information |