biography
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| female
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| lived:
| (1838–1912)
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| biography:
| Housing reformer and founder of the National Trust, born in London, UK. She worked among the London poor, and in 1864, supported by Ruskin, commenced her project to improve the homes of people in the slums - methods which were imitated in Europe and the USA. In 1869 she helped to found the Charity Organization Society. A leader of the open-space movement, she was a co-founder in 1895 of the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty. |
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