Edited by her brother-in-law C. Edmund Maurice, these letters follow Octavia Hill from her childhood and early work with a toy-making cooperative of poor girls in 1850s London, through her art training under Ruskin and her teaching at Nottingham Place, to the housing schemes that made her name, in which she bought slum courts and managed them herself with firm, personal care for each tenant.
An intimate record of one of the most influential Victorian social reformers, a co-founder of the National Trust. Download the free EPUB.