Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Octavia Hill
Standard Name: Hill, Octavia
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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
. Kelly, Gary, and Edd Applegate, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 190. Gale Research. 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... |
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... |
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. 112 |
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