Octavia Hill

Standard Name: Hill, Octavia

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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.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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, 1979.
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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...

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