Oman, Carola. An Oxford Childhood. Hodder and Stoughton, 1976.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Sophia Jex-Blake | Octavia Hill
, raised by her mother and grandfather after her father suffered a mental breakdown, lived through a childhood of poverty. She impressed SJB
with her work ethic and sensitivity, and was herself moved... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Carola Oman | Having worked before her marriage with the Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants
(founded by Octavia Hill
), Mary Oman worked in Oxford for innumerable charities including the Church Missionary Society
. Oman, Carola. An Oxford Childhood. Hodder and Stoughton, 1976. 112 |
Family and Intimate relationships | George Eliot | Rosemary Ashton
, biographer of GE
, says there is no evidence whether or how much GE regretted the childlessness which she chose because of law and social prejudice. After Lewes told his three sons... |
Friends, Associates | Hesba Stretton | HS
's notable friends and associates included Angela Burdett-Coutts
, Henrietta Synnot
, social reformer Octavia Hill
(a specialist in housing reform), French protestant historian J. H. Merle D'Aubigné
, and German theologian Franz Delitzsch
. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements. Kelly, Gary, and Edd Applegate, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 190. Gale Research, 1998. 190: 312 |
Friends, Associates | Emilie Barrington | EB
's other literary, cultural, and civic-minded friends included writers Henry James
, Walter Pater
, Walter Crane
(a moving spirit in the Arts and Crafts movement), and the philathropist and reformer Octavia Hill
(whose... |
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 |
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, 1993. 311 |
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... |
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
. |
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, 1985. 125-8 |
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 | 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, 1952. 87 |
Occupation | Emilie Barrington | |
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... |
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