... Miss Octavia Hill * London also dess ires special BMBtiwß ...

... “Times says—Widespread regret will bo felt at tin* announcement of the death on Tuesday her house in arylebone road of Miss Octavia Hill, who deserves to remembered as one of the most practical and ost energetic of women philanthropists her dav, aged 74. Inspired ...

... WOMAN’S SUFFRAGE The Times’’ publishes a letter fro Octavia Hill on women and lie mtfiage, in which she says —I am sorry to enter the political world, even so far 10 write about the question of women suffrage. sorry, too, emphasise the difference of opinion ...

... people are being drawn into the struggle. Among the quiet ladies who have reluctantly been drawn into the fray is Miss Octavia Hill. No woman has a better right speak or to be listened to with respect. There has been far too much vasillation and playing ...

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

... AGAINST WOMAN SUFFRAGE MISS OCT AVIA HILL’S PROTEST The Times publishes letter from Miss Octavia Hill on women and the suffra*®, in which she says:—l am sorry to enter into the political world, even so far write about the question of women’s suffrage ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... should have votes (hear, hear). . Rev. Robin said that one way approaching the housing question waa originated bv Miss Octavia Hill (applausel. whoso book Homes of the London Poor.” was a valuable work. The plan was based idea of taking existing tenement ...

... nt is given to tenants to regularly put by a portion of their weekly wage. and itrwas always the idea of the late Miss Octavia Hill, that when collecting rent, suggestions for thrift, prudence, and other virtues (that seem in danger of being forgotten) ...