ABSTRACT
Hill had a limited formal education but was from a family committed to social justice and this very much guided her life. Hill was a passionate advocate of social housing and open spaces in cities. Probably few persons who have a choice of holidays select a Bank holiday, which falls in the spring or summer, as one on which they will travel, or stroll in the country, unless, indeed, they live in neighbourhoods very far removed from large towns. The agricultural labourers, often tenants-at-will of a powerful landlord, can be ejected and their rights immediately cancelled; moreover, they do not know the law, they have few to advise them, to plead their cause, or to spend money on expensive lawsuits. Rights of proprietorship may exist equally in both; but there is an important sense in which the open country belongs to the proprietors and to the people too.
