'Nobler imaginings and mightier struggles': Octavia Hill, social activism and the remaking of British society
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Elektronische Ressource
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Verlag:
Institute of Historical Research
Ort:
London
Entstehungszeit:
2016
Sprache:
Englisch
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Abstract:
"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."--Back cover
Objekttext:
edited by Elizabeth Baigent and Ben Cowell
Includes bibliographical references and index
Papers from a conference held at the National Trust's Sutton House, London, on September 27-28, 2012
Includes bibliographical references and index
Papers from a conference held at the National Trust's Sutton House, London, on September 27-28, 2012
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