She wrote to the Times on 30 March 1888 about a scheme, first proposed by George Frederic Watts
and now to be undertaken by Walter Crane
for the Kyrle Society
, which combined her interest...
Occupation
Beatrice Webb
Beatrice Potter (later BW
) became manager and rent-collector of a slum block, Katherine Buildings in Aldgate, East London, which was part of Octavia Hill
's charitable housing scheme.
Nord, Deborah Epstein. The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb. University of Massachusetts Press.
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Occupation
Ann Bridge
Since, however, writing seemed unlikely to yield her a livelihood, she went immediately to work as assistant secretary for the Charity Organization Society
, Chelsea branch. This paid her twenty-three shillings a week, with hours...
Ellsworth, Edward W. Liberators of the Female Mind: The Shirreff Sisters, Educational Reform, and the Women’s Movement. Greenwood.
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Residence
Margaret Harkness
MH
moved to London's East End in the early 1880s. For a while she lived in Katherine Buildings, one of reformer Octavia Hill
's charitable housing ventures, where Beatrice Potter worked as a rent...