Homes of the London Poor
Homes of the London Poor

Author: Octavia Hill

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-11-27

Total Pages: 73

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'Homes of the London Poor' is a collection of essays by Octavia Hill, a Victorian social reformer who dedicated her life to improving the conditions of poverty and poor housing in London. Hill's approach included practical action and campaigning for change. She believed in helping the poor towards self-support and self-respect, with the goal of bringing them out of poverty. Hill's plan involved obtaining possession of houses to be let in weekly tenements to the poor, with a focus on sanitation and educational work. Her hope was to encourage habits of industry and effort, empowering the poor to become independent and self-sufficient.

Homes of the London Poor (Autobiographical Account)
Homes of the London Poor (Autobiographical Account)

Author: Octavia Hill

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2020-12-17

Total Pages: 64

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"Homes of the London Poor" is both a personal recollection and a social study by Octavia Hill. When Hill began her work, the model dwelling movement had been in existence for twenty years, royal and select committees had sat to examine the problems of urban well-being, and the first of many tranches of legislation aimed at improving working class housing had been passed. From Hill's point of view these had all failed the poorest members of the working class, the unskilled labourers. She found that their landlords routinely ignored their obligations towards their tenants, and that the tenants were too ignorant and oppressed to better themselves. She tried to find new homes for her charges, but there was a severe shortage of available property, and Hill decided that her only solution was to become a landlord herself. In consequence of her diligent work and prudent management, by 1874 she had 15 housing schemes with around 3,000 tenants. Hill's system was based on closely managing not only the buildings but the tenants. She maintained close personal contact with all her tenants, and was strongly opposed to impersonal bureaucratic organizations and to governmental intervention in housing.

Homes of the London Poor and the Bitter Cry of Outcast London
Homes of the London Poor and the Bitter Cry of Outcast London

Author: Octavia Hill

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-12-14

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1317275705

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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 by his work and by Christian socialism, she aims to outline the housing problems in London present in her lifetime and how reformation could help those in need of affordable and sanitary housing. The second text comes from a pamphlet written by Andrew Mearns in 1883 which highlights the overcrowded and unsanitary housing conditions that were still a major issue eight years after Hill’s work was published. Both works together present a clear picture of the appalling conditions the poor and homeless were forced into in Victorian London. This title will be of interest to students of history and social work.

London Labour and the London Poor
London Labour and the London Poor

Author: Henry Mayhew

Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 1605207330

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Assembled from a series of newspaper articles first published in the newspaper *Morning Chronicle* throughout the 1840s, this exhaustively researched, richly detailed survey of the teeming street denizens of London is a work both of groundbreaking sociology and salacious voyeurism. In an 1850 review of the survey, just prior to its initial book publication, William Makepeace Thackeray called it "tale of terror and wonder" offering "a picture of human life so wonderful, so awful, so piteous and pathetic, so exciting and terrible, that readers of romances own they never read anything like to it." Delving into the world of the London "street-folk"-the buyers and sellers of goods, performers, artisans, laborers and others-this extraordinary work inspired the socially conscious fiction of Charles Dickens in the 19th century as well as the urban fantasy of Neil Gaiman in the late 20th. Volume I explores the lives of: the "wandering tribes" costermongers sellers of fish, fruits and vegetables sellers of books and stationery sellers of manufactured goods women and children on the streets and more. English journalist HENRY MAYHEW (1812-1887) was a founder and editor of the satirical magazine *Punch.*

London Shadows
London Shadows

Author: George Godwin

Publisher:

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9781409965794

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George Godwin (1813-1888) was an influential architect, journalist and editor of The Builder magazine. He trained at his father's architectural practice in Kensington where he set up a practice with his brother. Encouraged by his friend the antiquary John Britton, he pursued an interest in architectural history. He was also interested in new materials and wrote on the use of concrete (1836). He soon joined the Institute of British Architects, the Society of Antiquaries, and became a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1844, Godwin became editor of The Builder and immediately expanded its scope and coverage beyond new works and architectural issues to include history, archaeology, arts, sanitation and social issues. He took a campaigning stance to improve the circumstances of the working classes. He wrote on slums and republished edited collections of his articles as reforming books. In addition to self-improvement, he promoted the use of public baths, wash-houses, charitable housing trusts and pavilion-styled hospitals. His works include London Shadows (1854).

Housing, Class and Gender in Modern British Writing, 1880–2012
Housing, Class and Gender in Modern British Writing, 1880–2012

Author: Emily Cuming

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-08-24

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1316710408

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Domestic interiors and housing environments have historically been portrayed as a framing device for the representation of individuals and social groups. Drawing together a wide and eclectic collection of well known, and less familiar, works by writers including Charles Booth, Octavia Hill, James Joyce, Pat O'Mara, Rose Macaulay, Patrick Hamilton, Sam Selvon, Sarah Waters, Lynsey Hanley and Andrea Levy, the author reflects upon and challenges various myths and truisms of 'home' through an analysis of four distinct British settings: slums, boarding houses, working-class childhood homes and housing estates. Her exploration of works of social investigation, fiction and life writing leads to an intricate stock of housing tales that are inherited, shifting and always revealing about the culture of our times. This book seeks to demonstrate how depictions of domestic space - in literature, history and other cultural forms - tell powerful and unexpected stories of class, gender, social belonging and exclusion.