Octavia Hill
Standard Name: Hill, Octavia
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
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... |
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... |
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... |
Occupation | Emilie Barrington | |
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... |
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