Octavia Hill

After Watts 's former residence at Little Holland House was pulled down in 1875, it was EB who provided a long-term home at her own house for some of the frescoes with which Watts had...

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...

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...

MG joined the Charity Organization Society (founded the previous year); she served on its council with Octavia Hill .

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...