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Radical Reformers and Respectable Rebels

How the Two Lives of Grace Oakeshott Defined an Era

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  1. Jocelyn Robson
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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Jocelyn Robson
      Pages 1-3

  3. Prologue

    1. Prologue

      • Jocelyn Robson
      Pages 4-6

  4. Part I

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-8
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    2. Radicals in Suburbia

      • Jocelyn Robson
      Pages 9-18

    3. Learning Curves

      • Jocelyn Robson
      Pages 19-30

    4. Finding Their Own Way

      • Jocelyn Robson
      Pages 31-42

    5. ‘Another Word for Suicide’

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      Pages 43-52

    6. ‘Fellowship is Heaven’

      • Jocelyn Robson
      Pages 53-65

  5. Part II

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-68
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    2. Answering the Call

      • Jocelyn Robson
      Pages 69-84

    3. Not Much ‘Home’ About It

      • Jocelyn Robson
      Pages 85-96

    4. Behind Closed Doors

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      Pages 97-109

    5. Girls in Trades

      • Jocelyn Robson
      Pages 110-121

    6. Medical Men

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      Pages 122-133

  6. Part III

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-136
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    2. A Place to Begin Again

      • Jocelyn Robson
      Pages 137-145

    3. ‘Ignoble Motives’

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      Pages 146-161

    4. The Politics of Knitting

      • Jocelyn Robson
      Pages 162-175

    5. Landfall

      • Jocelyn Robson
      Pages 176-185
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About this book

In 1907, Grace Oakeshott faked her own death by drowning. Aged 35, she left a marriage and a successful professional life in England and fled with her lover, Walter Reeve, to New Zealand. What prompted her to do so? Jocelyn Robson traces her life story through social, political and religious reform movements of the fin de siècle period.

Reviews

“This lucidly-written book ostensibly concerns, and resolves, the mystery of Grace Oakeshott’s faked suicide in 1907 when she appeared to have drowned off the coast of Brittany. … The author has written a readable and informative book which will appeal to those interested in local and social history as well as in, this often intriguing, biography.” (Brian Lancaster, CHNSS Bulletin, Vol. 157, September, 2016)

About the author

Jocelyn Robson has worked as a researcher and teacher in further and higher education and has special interests in women's history and vocational training. Raised in New Zealand and living in London, she is now a fulltime writer.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Radical Reformers and Respectable Rebels

  • Book Subtitle: How the Two Lives of Grace Oakeshott Defined an Era

  • Authors: Jocelyn Robson

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137311849

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-31183-2Published: 03 February 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-67227-1Published: 26 July 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-31184-9Published: 16 June 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 233

  • Topics: Popular Science, general, Social History, Modern History, Gender Studies

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