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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... |
politics | Maria Grey | MG
joined the Charity Organization Society
(founded the previous year); she served on its council with Octavia Hill
. Ellsworth, Edward W. Liberators of the Female Mind: The Shirreff Sisters, Educational Reform, and the Women’s Movement. Greenwood. 23, 102 |
Occupation | Sophia Jex-Blake | While she was a student at Queen's College, London
, SJB
became by invitation a maths tutor there. For this she received a salary, her acceptance of which was disparaged by her father, who wrote... |
Occupation | Susan Tweedsmuir | ST
began her career (her own term) in welfare work under the ægis of Mrs. Humphry Ward
. Tweedsmuir, Susan. The Lilac and the Rose. G. Duckworth. 87 |
Occupation | Harriet Shaw Weaver | HSW
volunteered with the Holiday Fund
, founded by Canon Barnett
to send ailing slum children away for recuperative vacations. Barnett was a disciple of Octavia Hill
and a founding spirit in the Charity Organization Society |
Occupation | Emilie Barrington | |
Occupation | Beatrice Webb | Beatrice Potter (later BW
) volunteered as a case-worker for the philanthropic Charity Organization Society
(COS) founded by Octavia Hill
. Nord, Deborah Epstein. The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb. University of Massachusetts Press. 50 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Occupation | Emilie Barrington | 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. 125-8 |
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... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Beatrice Webb | She was working as manager of these buildings, part of the low-income housing project of the Charity Organization Society
(COS) founded by Octavia Hill
. |
Literary Setting | Margaret Harkness | A City Girl is an empathetic portrait of the struggle of women to survive financially and sexually in the slums of the East End of London (which form the setting of most of MH
's... |
Friends, Associates | George Eliot | Some of her closest friends were prominent feminists, and they were among those soonest willing to flout convention and visit her after her union to Lewes. Despite the social and spiritual gulf between them, GE |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Gaskell | By 1852, EG
's strong nucleus of important female friends included Barbara Leigh Smith
, Bessie Parkes
, Adelaide Procter
, Octavia
and Miranda Hill
, and Harriet Martineau
. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber. 311 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Howitt | Visitors who stayed with the Howitts at The Elms included Hans Christian Andersen
, Tennyson
, Elizabeth Gaskell
, and Eliza Meteyard
, who wrote as Silver Pen. Their circle also included Charles Dickens |
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