Description: 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. This 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.
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EAN: 9781909646001
UPC: 9781909646001
ISBN: 9781909646001
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Book Title: 'Nobler Imaginings and Mightier Struggles': Octavi
Item Length: 23.4 cm
Item Weight: 0.33 kg
Item Height: 245 mm
Item Width: 163 mm
Series: Open Access Titles
Author: Elizabeth Baigent, Ben Cowell
Publication Name: Octavia Hill, Social Activism and the Remaking of British Society
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: School of Advanced Study
Subject: History
Publication Year: 2016
Type: Textbook
Number of Pages: 350 Pages
