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Illustrator: C.R. Leslie, RA
Engraver: T. Vernon
Original Illustration Size: 200 x 242mm / 9″16 x 7″28
Illustration Number: 7/38
Source Text: The Works of Shakspere / Imperial Edition / Edited by Charles Knight / With Illustrations on Steel / From Pictures By / C.W Cope R.A [and others] / In Two Volumes / Volume I
Published: London : Virtue & Co., Limited [1876?]
Octavia Hill (3 December 1838 – 13 August 1912[1]) was an English social reformer, whose main concern was the welfare of the inhabitants of cities, especially London, in the second half of the nineteenth century. Born into a family of radical thinkers and reformers with a strong commitment to alleviating poverty, she herself grew up in straitened circumstances owing to the financial failure of her father’s businesses. Home educated by her mother, she worked from the age of 14 for the welfare of working people.
Olivia is persistent, driven, intelligent, in love, emotional, dramatic, and loyal to those she loves. She will not love another other than whom she believes to be Cesario throughout the play, and she persists in her efforts to get what she wants.