Women and the Settlement Movement
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Published: September 15, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781860641299
Subjects: Charities & voluntary services; Social history; Social welfare & social services; Women's studies; Women's Studies - General; Social settlements; Private Welfare Work; Women - 20th Century History; Gender Studies; Women social workers; History: World; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Sociology; Europe - Great Britain - General; Social Science / Women's Studies; History; England; London; Women in charitable work
First sentence: Soon after Octavia Hill's widowed mother had moved her family to Marylebone and started a small school, their house in Nottingham Place became a local asset if not a blueprint for women's settlements.