Grace Oakeshott

Grace wrote a paper in 1900 on Women in the Cigar Trade in London, published in The Economic Journal.

[3] In 1907 a pile of her clothes was found on a beach in Brittany where she was on holiday, giving the impression that she had drowned.

In fact she had made plans to emigrate to New Zealand with her lover Dr Walter Reeve, apparently with the knowledge of her husband, at a time when divorce was difficult and scandalous.

[3] Oakeshott was the subject of the play Grace, written and directed by her great-granddaughter Sophie Dingemans, which was performed at Wellington's BATS Theatre in 2008.

[4] Her life has been extensively researched by British author Jocelyn Robson, who published Radical Reformers and Respectable Rebels: How the Two Lives of Grace Oakeshott Defined an Era (2016, Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 9781137311832).