Chapter Three: Why Settle? : Samuel Barnett, Octavia Hill, and the London Slums

2016 ◽  
pp. 101-128
Keyword(s):  
Octavia Hill

Traditions and Transformations

2021 ◽  
pp. 43-59
Author(s):  
Regina Marler
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Female Role ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Florence Nightingale ◽  
The Status ◽  
Childhood Home ◽  
Octavia Hill

Modernist, feminist, experimental: the terms we now most associate with Virginia Woolf all presuppose a break with conventions and a rejection of the status quo in art and power relations. Yet all her life, Virginia Woolf kept returning in memory to her childhood home, to the crowded Victorian family in which she was raised, where boys went to the best schools that Sir Leslie Stephen could afford, and girls, however clever or gifted, were shaped for charitable work, for motherhood, for marriage to prominent men. This obsessive turning back is a kind of pained nostalgia: a lament, a grievance, a comfort—and the engine of even her most avant-garde work. This chapter explores the traditions and assumptions of that potent childhood world, in part through the prism of three conservative female role models her mother, Julia Stephen, chose for her daughters: Mrs. Humphry Ward, Octavia Hill, and Florence Nightingale.

Paperwork and Philanthropy: Dickens’s Involvement in Metropolitan Improvement

2018 ◽  
pp. 130-172
Author(s):  
Joanna Hofer-Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Housing Stock ◽  
Personal Involvement ◽  
Bleak House ◽  
East End ◽  
Charity Work ◽  
Octavia Hill

This chapter analyses Dickensian afterlives in nineteenth-century philanthropic works alongside an investigation of Dickens’s personal involvement in a scheme to improve London’s provision of housing stock for the East End poor. Dickens collaborated with a number of his social network on this project, including Angela Burdett Coutts and Dr Thomas Southwood Smith. His chief contributions were bureaucratic, and, contemporaneously with this work, he explored tensions between the effectiveness and ineffectiveness of paperwork in Bleak House. Thus, this chapter suggests that Dickens’s practical and administrative involvement in charity work informed his imaginative representation of the utility and futility of paperwork, and how he conceptualised the effectiveness of different forms of writing. Dickens famously contended for pet causes in his fiction, but the various ways in which Dickens’s works were appropriated by other people, and recontextualised to promote or to criticise philanthropic projects, reveal that his writing was not always useful in the sense that he imagined. Indeed, the instrumentality of Dickens’s fiction to effect charitable projects was often indirect. For example, philanthropists, including Mary Carpenter and Octavia Hill, curated literary afterlives to enhance the effectiveness of their arguments in published treatises, even though the novels are not always relevant to their causes.

Octavia Hill: An Appraisal

1952 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter H. Mann
Keyword(s):  
Octavia Hill

scholarly journals Octavia Hill y sus aportes en el origen de Trabajo Social en la Inglaterra del siglo xix

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 203-223
Author(s):  
Viviana Lorena Bastidas Luna ◽  
Keila Ginett Holguín Rosero ◽  
Carol Viviana Obando Apraez
Keyword(s):  
Trabajo Social ◽  
Siglo Xix ◽  
Octavia Hill

En este artículo se hace un análisis del origen del Trabajo Social desde la perspectiva de género, haciendo énfasis en los aportes de Octavia Hill como pionera del Trabajo Social, a partir de su intervención social ante la pobreza y la carencia de vivienda y espacios dignos para las personas más vulnerables de Londres a mediados del siglo xix. Además, se destacan sus  concepciones teóricas y las principales corrientes  epistemológicas, tradicionales y emergentes que guiaron su quehacer profesional y al Trabajo Social, en general.

Capitalism in question

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 266-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leon C. Prieto ◽  
Simone T.A. Phipps
Keyword(s):  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Community Center ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Jane Addams ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Octavia Hill ◽  
Mary Parker Follett

Purpose – This article aims to depict the pivotal role Octavia Hill, Jane Addams and Mary Parker Follett played in the field of social entrepreneurship. The article aims to examine the contributions made by these remarkable women who made valuable theoretical and practical contributions to the emerging field of social entrepreneurship. Design/methodology/approach – Synthesizing articles from history journals, writings about the figures of interest, published works by the figures themselves and other resources, this paper illustrates how Hill, Addams and Follett made valuable contributions to social entrepreneurship and questioned the rectitude of unadulterated capitalism. Findings – This paper concludes that Hill, Addams and Follett refuted the viewpoint that self-interest and single-minded self-survival were the best ways to live and to conduct business. By their actions, the women showed that they did indeed bring “capitalism in question”, by recognizing the importance of seeking others’ interests. Originality/value – This article highlights the contributions made by Hill, Addams and Follett, who made valuable contributions in the field of social entrepreneurship which is made evident by their work with housing settlements, community center development, etc.

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