Radical Reformers and Respectable Rebels

How the Two Lives of Grace Oakeshott Defined an Era

J. Robson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

233 Seiten

2016 | 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-67227-1 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	08.10.2016
Zusatzinfo	XX, 233 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturwissenschaft
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
	Technik
Schlagworte	Feminism • First World War • transnational history • Utopianism • Women's history
ISBN-10	1-349-67227-0 / 1349672270
ISBN-13	978-1-349-67227-1 / 9781349672271
Zustand	Neuware