Nord, Deborah Epstein. The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb. University of Massachusetts Press.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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 | 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 |
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 | 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. 87 |
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. Kelly, Gary, and Edd Applegate, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 190. Gale Research. 190: 312 |
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 |
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... |
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... |
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 |
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... |
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... |
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 |
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 | 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 |
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