Life of Octavia Hill As Told in her Letters Hill Maurice Paperback 9781108024570

Life of Octavia Hill As Told in her Letters Hill Maurice Paperback 9781108024570

Life of Octavia HillAs Told in her Letters\nAuthor(s): Octavia Hill, C. Edmund Maurice\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108024570, 978-1108024570\nSynopsis\nOctavia Hill [tel] is today best remembered as one of the founders of the National Trust. However, her involvement in education and social reform, and particularly housing, was a large part of her work. Shocked at the poverty and overcrowding she found in London slums, she began to acquire and improve properties which would restore the tenants' dignity and self-respect. She organized a team of volunteer 'district visitors' to help the residents, and especially children, to achieve a better quality of life, including the provision of open spaces, training and recreational amenities. She was considerably influenced by Rev. [url] Maurice, theologian and social worker, whose son, the editor of this work, married Octavia's sister Emily. The let.

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