'Nobler imaginings and mightier struggles' : Octavia Hill, social activism and the remaking of British society

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Label

'Nobler imaginings and mightier struggles' : Octavia Hill, social activism and the remaking of British society

Title remainder

Octavia Hill, social activism and the remaking of British society

Statement of responsibility

edited by Elizabeth Baigent and Ben Cowell

Contributor

• Baigent, Elizabeth
• Cowell, Ben
• University of London, Institute of Historical Research

Editor

• Cowell, Ben
• Baigent, Elizabeth

Issuing body

• University of London, Institute of Historical Research

Subject

• Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century
• Hill, Octavia, 1838-1912
• Social change -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Society

Language

eng

Summary

This volume reassesses the life and work of Octavia Hill, housing reformer, open space campaigner, co-founder of the National Trust, founder of the Army Cadet Force, and the first woman to be invited to sit on a royal commission. In her lifetime she was widely regarded as an authority on a broad range of social problems. Yet despite her early pre-eminence, and the remarkable success of the institutions which she helped to found, Hill fell from public favour in the twentieth century. The book provides a nuanced portrait of Hill and her work in a broader context of social change, reflecting recent scholarship on nineteenth-century society in general, and on philanthropy and preservation, and women's role in them, in particular

Cataloging source

StDuBDS

Dewey number

• 306.092
• 920 HILL

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

HN385.5

LC item number

.N6 2016

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

specialized