Oman, Carola. An Oxford Childhood. Hodder and Stoughton, 1976.
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Octavia Hill
Standard Name: Hill, Octavia
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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
. |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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... |
| 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 | 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... |
| 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, 1985. 50 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Timeline
1864: Octavia Hill began tenement-dwelling reforms...
Building item
1864
Octavia Hill
began tenement-dwelling reforms in London.
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
207
October 1864: The Working Women's College opened in Queen...
Building item
October 1864
The Working Women's College
opened in Queen Street, London.
Purvis, June. A History of Women’s Education in England. Open University Press, 1991.
45-6
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
1395
Hudson, Derek, and Arthur Joseph Munby. Munby, Man of Two Worlds. J. Murray, 1972.
177-8
Cullwick, Hannah. “Introduction and Notes”. The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant, edited by Liz Stanley, Rutgers University Press, 1984, pp. 1 - 28, passim.
264
1865: Housing reformer Octavia Hill began to manage...
Building item
1865
Housing reformer Octavia Hill
began to manage her first block of residences, in Paradise Place, Marylebone.
Roach, John. Social Reform in England 1780-1880. St Martin’s Press, 1978.
180
Brion, Marion, and Anthea Tinker. Women in Housing: Access and Influence. Housing Centre Trust, 1980.
61
Owen, David. English Philanthropy, 1660-1960. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964.
388-9
1869: The Charity Organization Society was founded...
Building item
1869
The Charity Organization Society
was founded by Octavia Hill
.
Roach, John. Social Reform in England 1780-1880. St Martin’s Press, 1978.
179
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
106
1873: In an unlikely alliance, Octavia Hill's charitable...
Building item
1873
In an unlikely alliance, Octavia Hill
's charitable visitors and volunteer rent collectors began to share information with the Marylebone Poor Law officials.
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
131, 133
1877: Octavia Hill founded the Kyrle Society; this...
Building item
1877
Octavia Hill
founded the Kyrle Society
; this organization sought to bring beauty to the lives of the poor, through the creation of public parks, private gardens, and home decor.
Adburgham, Alison. A Punch History of Manners and Modes 1841-1940. Hutchinson, 1961.
123
1881: The Kyrle Society (founded by Octavia Hill...
Building item
1881
The Kyrle Society
(founded by Octavia Hill
in 1877) held its first public meeting, which Emilie Barrington
described some years later in a letter to The Times.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(30 March 1888): 8
1882: After seventeen years as a housing reformer,...
Building item
1882
After seventeen years as a housing reformer, Octavia Hill
was personally responsible for the dwellings of 378 families comprising 2,000 individuals.
Owen, David. English Philanthropy, 1660-1960. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964.
390
1884: Impressed by the housing activist's previous...
Building item
1884
Impressed by the housing activist's previous successes, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners gave over management of a block of flats to Octavia Hill
.
Brion, Marion, and Anthea Tinker. Women in Housing: Access and Influence. Housing Centre Trust, 1980.
61
As early as 1885: Octavia Hill gave evidence to the Royal Commission...
Building item
As early as 1885
Octavia Hill
gave evidence to the Royal Commission on the Housing of the Working Classes.
Brion, Marion, and Anthea Tinker. Women in Housing: Access and Influence. Housing Centre Trust, 1980.
62
Owen, David. English Philanthropy, 1660-1960. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964.
383, 385-7
Rodger, Richard. Housing in Urban Britain, 1780-1914: Class, Capitalism and Construction. Macmillan, 1989.
46
Lent term 1887: A paper by Henrietta Barnett at the Cambridge...
Building item
Lent term 1887
A paper by Henrietta Barnett
at the Cambridge Ladies' Discussion Society
led to the foundation that year of the Women's University Settlement
in Southwark, the first settlement for women.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Blackfriars Settlement. 2005, http://www.blackfriars-settlement.org.uk/blfs/index.php.
12 January 1895: The National Trust was founded at Grosvenor...
Building item
12 January 1895
The National Trust
was founded at Grosvenor House in London by Octavia Hill
, Hardwicke Rawnsley
, and Robert Hunter
(who had been working towards its opening for nearly a year).
“The National Trust”. The National Trust: for ever, for everyone.
March 1906: A company was set up, largely through the...
Building item
March 1906
A company was set up, largely through the efforts of Henrietta Barnett
, for the development of Hampstead Garden Suburb just north of London, as a community including people of all classes and income levels.
Hampstead Garden Suburb: Historical Background. http://www.hgs.org.uk/history/index.html.
13 August 1912: Octavia Hill, housing advocate and one-time...
Building item
13 August 1912
Octavia Hill
, housing advocate and one-time friend of John Ruskin
, died of cancer in her home at 190 Marylebone Road, London.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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