For the first time in print ~
Octavia Hill¡¦s Letters to Fellow-Workers
1872-1911
Edited by Robert Whelan??????????????? Associate Editor Anne Hoole
Anderson
¢G30.00, 848pp, October 2004
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Octavia Hill (1838-1911) devised a system to provide healthy accommodation
for working-class tenants at affordable prices; she was a member of the
1905 Royal Commission on the Poor Law; she organised cultural events in
deprived areas; she was a founder of the National Trust.
In 1872 Octavia Hill began to write short accounts of her year¡¦s work, to
be printed and circulated privately. The letters to fellow-workers were
printed ¡¥for private circulation only¡¦. They have never been published
before, except for some brief extracts. Because Octavia refused to form an
organisation to manage her work, everything was done on an informal basis.
In the absence of a committee, treasurer, minutes and AGMs, the letters to
fellow-workers are a sort of professional autobiography.
¡´ The full text, including the accounts, of all 39 letters to
fellow-workers
¡´ Over 400 footnotes explaining the people, places, organisations and
events mentioned
¡´ The two accounts of the Walmer Street Industrial Experiment
¡´ Chronology of Octavia Hill¡¦s life
¡´ Bibliography of Octavia Hill¡¦s published writings
¡´ Appendices on Octavia Hill¡¦s work for the Ecclesiastical Commissioners
and the Kyrle Society
¡´ Over 30 illustrations of properties and places mentioned in the letters
¡´ Index
¡¥Timely and fascinating, Hill¡¦s letters provide a splendid introduction
to
the panorama of philanthropy and social reform.¡¦
FRANK PROCHASKA, author of Women and Philanthropy
¡¥Octavia Hill¡¦s Letters to Fellow-workers constitute a first-hand and
very
personal record of Victorian social reform. Her approach tackled every
need, from the practical to the pleasurable, and her voice and emphasis
ring out from the pages of Robert Whelan¡¦s useful and fully annotated new
edition of the privately printed letters.¡¦
GILLIAN DARLEY, author of Octavia Hill: A Life
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