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'Nobler Imaginings and Mightier Struggles': Octavia Hill, Social Activism and the Remaking of British Society

Elizabeth Baigent

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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.

Language: English

Pages: 350

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Institute of Historical Research

Release: February 19, 2016

ISBN: 1909646008

ISBN 13: 9781909646001

'Nobler Imaginings and Mightier Struggles': Octavia Hill, Social Activism and the Remaking of British Society

Elizabeth Baigent

0/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 350

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Institute of Historical Research

Release: February 19, 2016

ISBN: 1909646008

ISBN 13: 9781909646001

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