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5DGLFDO5HIRUPHUV DQG5HVSHFWDEOH5HEHOV +RZWKH7ZR/LYHVRI*UDFH2DNHVKRWW'HILQHGDQ(UD -RFHO\Q5REVRQ Radical Reformers and Respectable Rebels This page intentionally left blank 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 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted her right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2016 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-67227-1 ISBN 978-1-137-31184-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137311849 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. Typeset by MPS Limited, Chennai, India. For my sister, Liz 1944–2007 Much loved, much missed This page intentionally left blank 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 vii viii Contents 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 ix
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