Life of Octavia Hill as Told in Her Letters

by Octavia Hill

[12]. Three years earlier Dr. Furnivall lent Mrs. Hill Ruskin’s “Modern Painters,” and Octavia read it then for the first time.

[13]. Charles Mansfield, author of “Letters from Paraguay,” and one of the Christian Socialist leaders.

[14]. During the Crimean War.

[15]. Octavia never took any notes. Her recollections of the sermons are wholly from memory.

[16]. The Czar Nicholas.

[17]. By Charles Kingsley.

[18]. 1851 or 1852, certainly not later.

[19]. Builder connected with Co-operative Society.

[20]. After the glass had been painted, a hard composition was put at the back to make it solid enough to bear a weight. Sometimes it broke in the process, and the painting had to be done over again.

[21]. Turner’s “Old Teméraire.”