Octavia Hill

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...

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 . She supported...

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...

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 .

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

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...

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.

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 .

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...

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 .

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.

HSW volunteered with the Holiday Fund , founded by Canon Barnett to send ailing slum children away for recuperative vacations.

ST began her career (her own term) in welfare work under the ægis of Mrs. Humphry Ward . She began by serving food to crippled children at the Passmore Edwards Settlement (later the Mary...

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...

After Watts 's former residence at Little Holland House was pulled down in 1875, it was EB who provided a long-term home at her own house for some of the frescoes with which Watts had...