At the start of the 20th century, Britain was slowly becoming a freer place for women. Young Grace Oakeshott seized every opportunity to learn and improve the world around her – though she found those opportunities frustratingly narrow. One day, she vanished suddenly, leaving behind only a pile of clothes on a beach. A hundred years later, the truth about Grace’s disappearance has finally come to light.
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Further reading
The key source for this episode of Cautionary Tales is Radical Reformers and Respectable Rebels: How The Two Lives of Grace Oakeshott Defined an Era (2016) by Jocelyn Robson
We also drew on:
“Shooting Affair at Parakae”, Poverty Bay Herald, 10 June 1908.
Breton Folk: An Artistic Tour in Brittany (1881) by Henry Blackburn
And my own book The Logic of Life (2008) .
The following websites were useful: