Octavia Hill: 4 books

Originally published together in 1970, this study collects two essays on the housing situation of London in the nineteenth century. Homes of the London Poor was first published in 1875 and written by Octavia Hill, the granddaughter of the pioneer of sanitary reformation, Dr. T. Southwood Smith. Influenced...

Homes of the London Poor written by Octavia Hill  who was an English social reformer. This book was published in 1883. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original...

Our Common Land (and Other Short Essays) written by Octavia Hill who was an English social reformer. This book was published in 1877. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally...

I. OUR COMMON LAND   Probably few persons who have a choice of holidays select a Bank holiday, which falls in the spring or summer, as one on which they will travel, or stroll in the country, unless, indeed, they live in neighbourhoods very far removed from large towns....