Walker, Stephen - In: Accounting History Review 16 (2006) 2, pp. 163-194
Philanthropic work involved large numbers of middle-class women in the performance of accounting functions during the … reformer Octavia Hill. It is revealed that in her early life Octavia Hill practised accounting as the manager of a craft … workshop, college secretary and manager of a household. She also taught bookkeeping. Octavia Hill's application of accounting …