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Hill (OCTAVIA an English)

OCTAVIA, an English philanthropist; born about 1838. She was the grand-daughter of Dr. Southwood Smith, a zealous promoter of sanitary reform.

While still young she began work among the London poor under Frederick D.

Maurice; and in 1864, supported by Mr.

Ruskin, she commenced her great work of improving the homes of workingmen in the slums and dismal alleys of the metropolis. Miss Hill wrote "Homes of the London Poor" (1875); "Our Common Land and other Essays" (1878).