Octavia Hill and the English Landscape

TY - CHAP

T1 - Octavia Hill and the English Landscape

AU - Readman, Paul

N1 - Paper from a conference held at the National Trust’s Sutton House, London, on September 27-28, 2012.

PY - 2016/2

Y1 - 2016/2

N2 - Octavia Hill’s interest in open spaces was central to her ideals and activities, intersecting with her housing work as well as being reflected in her involvement with the National Trust. This preoccupation was evident from an early stage. To her long-standing enjoyment of nature, she added in adulthood a strong conviction as to the moral benefit of contact with the verdant outdoors. This belief was galvanized into energetic activism by her ultimately unsuccessful efforts to save Swiss Cottage Fields in north London, in 1875, also the year in which she became a member of the Commons Preservation Society (CPS).

AB - Octavia Hill’s interest in open spaces was central to her ideals and activities, intersecting with her housing work as well as being reflected in her involvement with the National Trust. This preoccupation was evident from an early stage. To her long-standing enjoyment of nature, she added in adulthood a strong conviction as to the moral benefit of contact with the verdant outdoors. This belief was galvanized into energetic activism by her ultimately unsuccessful efforts to save Swiss Cottage Fields in north London, in 1875, also the year in which she became a member of the Commons Preservation Society (CPS).

KW - Octavia Hill

KW - Social reformers

KW - Open spaces

KW - Urban areas

KW - Commons

KW - Great Britain

UR - http://www.history.ac.uk/publications/noble-imaginings

M3 - Chapter

SN - 9781909646001

T3 - IHR Conference Series

SP - 163

EP - 184

BT - 'Nobler Imaginings and Mightier Struggles'

A2 - Baigent, Elizabeth

A2 - Cowell, Ben

PB - Institute of Historical Research

CY - London

ER -