Radical Reformers and Respectable Rebels

252 Pages·2016·12.936 MB·English

by  Robson, J.;Robson, Jocelyn

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Radical Reformers and Respectable Rebels
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Radical Reformers
and Respectable Rebels
How the Two Lives of Grace
Oakeshott Defined an Era
Jocelyn Robson
© Jocelyn Robson 2016
Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2016 978-1-137-31183-2
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For my sister, Liz
1944–2007
Much loved, much missed
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Contents
List of Illustrations ix
List of Maps xii
Acknowledgements xiii
Timeline xv
Family Trees xvii
Introduction 1
Prologue 4
Part I
1 Radicals in Suburbia 9
2 Learning Curves 19
3 Finding Their Own Way 31
4 ‘Another Word for Suicide’ 43
5 ‘Fellowship is Heaven’ 53
Part II
6 Answering the Call 69
7 Not Much ‘Home’ About It 85
8 Behind Closed Doors 97
9 Girls in Trades 110
10 Medical Men 122
Part III
11 A Place to Begin Again 137
12 ‘Ignoble Motives’ 146
13 The Politics of Knitting 162
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14 Landfall 176
15 After Lives 186
Notes 199
Select Bibliography 220
Index 227
List of Illustrations
1.1 Elizabeth Cash with the children in about 1876 (reproduced
with the kind permission of James Cash) 10
1.2 Poster advertising the ‘fresh air’ suburb of Upper Norwood
in about 1900 (reproduced with the kind permission of
Melvyn Harrison, Chairman, Crystal Palace Foundation) 12
2.1 Harold Oakeshott as a young man (reproduced with the
kind permission of Gillian Oxford) 22
2.2 Senior pupils at Croydon High School for Girls c.1888
(reproduced with the kind permission of Croydon High School) 28
2.3 The Upper Sixth Form at Croydon High Schools for Girls in 1891
(reproduced with the kind permission of Croydon High School) 29
3.1 Class of juniors at Croydon High School for Girls (probably
in 1891 or 1892) (reproduced with the kind permission
of Croydon High School) 37
4.1 Downside Cottage in Fanfare Road (later Downs Road)
in Coulsdon, Surrey (reproduced with the kind permission
of Gillian Oxford) 48
5.1 Hand traced map (taken from the sailing log for 1899) of
the Hampshire, Dorset and Devon coastline (reproduced
with the kind permission of James Cash) 62
5.2 Photograph of Walter, Harold and Grace, on the East Coast
cruise of August 1900 (reproduced with the kind permission
of Cherry Dingemans) 65
6.1 Walter as a small boy (reproduced with the kind permission
of Cherry Dingemans) 70
6.2 A view in 1827 of The Church Missionary Society College
in Islington, London (© London Metropolitan Archives,
City of London) 71
6.3 A photograph, taken in 1901, of an early steamer in
the Northwest Territories (NWT Archives, Yellowknife,
C. W. Mathers, fonds/N-1979-058:0008) 73
6.4 The pulpit in the modern-day St David’s Anglican Church,
Fort Simpson (photograph taken by the author in 2011) 75
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