... published include those of some of the most interesting personalities of the day, foremost among them Miss Octavia Hill and Mrs. Sidney Webb. Miss Hill, of whom Lord Goschen once said that she was a Chancillor of the Exchequer lost to Parliament. ha 4 done ...

... given full discretion and independence in regard to the details of administration. * Management should be based on the Octavia Hill system, and wherever practicable women housing estate managers should be employed. suitable cases the local authority or ...

... belter idea of Its aims can traced to the place in which the movement started—the English Lake district. Some years ago Octavia Hill, Sir Robert Hunter and Canon Rawnsiey saw many of the beautiful spots of the Lake District passing Into private hands and ...

... Mr. J. Patten Macdougall, Mr. Thomas Hancock Nun, the Rev. L. B. Phelps, Mr. W. Smart, Mrs. Helen Bosanquet, and Miss Octavia Hill. The minority report is signed by Prebendary Russell Wakefield, Mr. F. Chandler, Mr. George Lansbury, and Mrs. Sidney Webb ...

... ford soap its a pod Wit LB VBR P OCTAVIA HILL'S CENTENARY. HER WORK FOR HOUSING. ONCE SHE SHOCKED LONDON. Nearly seventy-five years ago Victorian London was shocked by the brazen behaviour of a young woman named Octavia Hill. Appalled by the terrible housing ...

... enjoyed their fair measure of sunshine and their full mead of fresh- air. I supplemented this with an extract from Miss Octavia Hill, a pioneer of Garden City development, in which she said: We all need space : unless we have it we cannot reach that sense ...

... Rev. L. R. Phelps, Profeesor William Smart, Rev. W. Russell Wakefield, Mrs. Bernard Bosanquet, Mrs. Sidney Webb, and Miss Octavia Hill. It understood that the name of the secretary the Coramifision will shortly be announced, and an early first meeting arranged ...

... demanded when he wrote that a book should teach us either to enjoy life or endure It. A Victorian Girl What of his antithesis, Octavia Hill? Sala was a child of 10 when Ootavia was born the same London whose seamy side had given him his real start in life, but ...

... Miss Octavia Hill. A number of women managers trained in her system were at work not only in England and Scotland but also in Sweden. Holland and the United States. Over 50 local authorities now employed women managers. The basis of the Octavia Hill ...

... Trust was founded by Octavia Hill and two others. It was then a humble organisation, a labour of love aided by the subscriptions of a few friends, and when a woman presented to them their first charge, some property at Barmouth. Miss Hill said: We have got ...

... interest as would attach to, nay, the doing of Walter Savage Mayfair. The failure of a biographer attempting the life of Octavia Hill irom tier letters only is evitable, in that hex life was dee is, not words The difficulty of collecting correspondence ...

... of help to your ccerespondent. In ihe report by the Poor Law Commissioners, three of whom were women—i.e., the late Mi.. Octavia Hill , Mn. Bernard IlZenaquet, and Mrs. Sydney Webb—the opinion ts given that the hareem of women'. wages in the sweated industries ...