Not identified. The article ascribed to Mrs. Hill, 'Ragged Robin', gives an account of a small industrial school in London in which girls from Ragged Schools were taught to make dolls' house furniture for sale; in charge of the girls and their work was Octavia Hill (Life of Octavia Hill, pp. 16-19)—"Miss O.P.Q.” in the article. The Mrs. Hill recorded as contributor may be Octavia Hill's mother—Caroline Southwood Smith Hill, 1809?-1902, daughter of Dr. Southwood Smith; author of Memoranda of Observations and Experiments in Education and of books for children. Before her marriage, Mrs. Hill had contributed to the Monthly Repository; at the time that the H.W. article appeared, she was engaged in writing articles. In a letter of February 27 1856, her daughter Miranda remarked: "It is indeed delightful that Mama has found some one to take her articles. I long to read them" (Life of Octavia Hill, p. 75).

Author: Anne Lohrli; © University of Toronto Press, 1971.