Life of Octavia Hill, Edited by C. Edmund Maurice
by Octavia Hill
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About this eBook
- Author
- Hill, Octavia, 1838-1912
- Title
- Life of Octavia Hill as Told in Her Letters
- Credits
- Produced by Richard Tonsing, Fay Dunn, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- HD: Social sciences: Economic history and conditions, Production
- Subject
- Hill, Octavia, 1838-1912
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 61159
- Release Date
- January 13, 2020
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.LIFE OF OCTAVIA HILL AS TOLD IN HER LETTERS
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5.CHAPTER I PARENTAGE AND CHILDHOOD
- 6.CHAPTER II EARLY WORK IN LONDON 1851—APRIL, 1856
- 7.CHAPTER III WORKING WOMEN’S CLASSES AND ART TRAINING APRIL, 1856—DECEMBER, 1858
- 8.CHAPTER IV MILTON STREET, DORSET SQUARE DECEMBER, 1858—APRIL, 1861.
- 9.CHAPTER V 1860—1870 NOTTINGHAM PLACE SCHOOL. BEGINNING OF HOUSING WORK.
- 10.CHAPTER VI 1870–1875 GROWING PUBLICITY OF OCTAVIA’S WORK
- 11.CHAPTER VII 1875—1878 THE OPEN SPACE MOVEMENT
- 12.CHAPTER VIII 1878—1881 FOREIGN TRAVELS—MANAGEMENT OF HER WORK AT HOME
- 13.CHAPTER IX 1881—1889 APPOINTMENT BY THE ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONERS
- 14.CHAPTER X 1890—1902 FURTHER PROGRESS IN HOUSING AND OPEN SPACE WORK
- 15.CHAPTER XI LAST YEARS OF LIFE 1902–1912
- 16.CONCLUSION
- 17.INDEX
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