Life of Octavia Hill - Caroline Southwood Hill

Caroline Southwood Hill ( Smith; 21 March 1809 – 31 December 1902) was an English educationalist and writer. She established and ran a

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infant school, was involved in many

co-operative A cooperative (also known as co-operative, co-op, or coop) is "an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically-control ...

ventures, and moved in a radical circle of other reformers. She wrote three children's books and contributed works to a range of publications such as ''

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'' and Charles Dickens's ''

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''. She was the daughter of

Thomas Southwood Smith Thomas Southwood Smith (17881861) was an English physician and sanitary reformer. Early life Smith was born at Martock, Martock, Somerset, into a strict Baptist family, his parents being William Smith and Caroline Southwood. In 1802 he won a sc ...

(1788–1861), a physician and sanitary reformer. She was the mother of

Octavia Hill Octavia Hill (3 December 1838 – 13 August 1912) was an English Reform movement, social reformer, whose main concern was the welfare of the inhabitants of cities, especially London, in the second half of the nineteenth century. Born into a fa ...

(1838–1912) and

Miranda Hill Miranda Hill (Wisbech 1836–1910) was an English social reformer. Biography Hill was a daughter of James Hill (died 1872), a corn merchant, banker and follower of Robert Owen, and his third wife, Caroline Southwood Smith (1809–1902), ...

(1836–1910), both activists and social reformers; and Emily who married the son of Christian Socialist

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hill, Caroline Southwood 1809 births 1902 deaths English schoolteachers 19th-century women educators Women educational theorists British cooperative organizers English writers 19th-century English women writers 19th-century English novelists 19th-century English non-fiction writers