Miranda Hill
Miranda Hill | |
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| Born | 1836 Wisbech, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire |
| Died | 1910 (aged 73–74) Marylebone, London, England |
| Occupation(s) | Author, Humanitarian |
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
Caroline Southwood Smith (1809–1902), a teacher and a daughter of Dr Thomas Southwood Smith, the pioneer of sanitary reform. The family were brought up in reduced financial circumstances, after their father went bankrupt in 1840 (for a second time), necessitating them to leave their home Bank House, South Brink, Wisbech.[1] To earn her living, Miranda became a governess, and later became a teacher as did some of her sisters and half-sisters. Her half-brother Arthur an engineer and coal merchant was four times mayor of Reading.[2]
The Kyrle Society
Hill founded the influential Kyrle Society in 1875/1876, named after
National Trust
.
There was also a horticultural wing aimed at children, and a branch called Invalid Children's Aid (ICA), which became independent in 1908. Membership of the Society often overlapped with that of the early
women's suffrage movement.[citation needed
]
Miranda also worked in
Board of Guardians there.[citation needed
]
She worked closely, from 1891, with her sister Octavia Hill on major housing reform projects in England.[citation needed]
Published works
- Hill, Miranda; Kate Greenaway (1875). The Fairy Spinner and "Out of date or not?". London: Marcus Ward.
- Hill, Miranda (1903). Cinderella.
- Hill, Miranda (1903). Rumpelstiltzkin and Dummling, two plays.
- Hill, Miranda; Maggie Browne (1906). The "Plays for Little Folks": Containing Cinderella, Rumpelstiltzkin, and ... Cassell and Co.
See also
- National Trust
- Aesthetic Movement
- William Morris
- John Ruskin
- Arts and Crafts Movement
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Hill, Octavia and Miranda". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 465.
- Caroline Southwood Hill at oxforddnb.com
Footnotes
- ^ "Bankrupts". Derby Mercury. 1 April 1840. p. 4.
- ^ William Thompson Hill (1956). Octavia Hill. Hutchinson.
- ^ a b Whelan, Robert (April 2009), "Octavia Hill and the environmental movement" (PDF), Civitas Review, 6 (1): 1–8
- ^ Lawley, Mark (October 2010). "Fanny Tripp" (PDF). Field Bryology. 102. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 November 2020.
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