Radical Reformers and Respectable Rebels: How the Two Lives of Grace Oakeshott Defined an Era

Robson, J.

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2016-07-26

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349672271

DOI: 10.1057/9781137311849

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 233