Octavia Hill, social activism and the remaking of British society (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Baigent, Elizabeth; Cowell, Ben

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of London
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781909646346
• Artikelnr.: 74282731