Radical Reformers and Respectable Rebels

How the Two Lives of Grace Oakeshott Defined an Era

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Paperback, blz. | Engels
Palgrave Macmillan UK | e druk, 2016
ISBN13: 9781349672271
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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.

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ISBN13:9781349672271
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK

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Introduction<br>Prologue<br>PART I<br>1. Radicals in Suburbia<br>2. Learning Curves<br>3. Finding Their Own Way<br>4. 'Another Word for Suicide'<br>5. 'Fellowship is Heaven'<br>PART II<br>6. Answering the Call<br>7. 'Not Much Home About It'<br>8. Behind Closed Doors<br>9. Girls in Trades<br>10. Medical Men<br>PART III<br>11. A Place to Begin Again<br>12. 'Ignoble Motives'<br>13. The Politics of Knitting<br>14. Landfall<br>15. After Lives<br>

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