Eva Gore-Booth

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Standard Name: Gore-Booth, Eva
Birth Name: Eva Selina Gore-Booth
In addition to her intense suffrage and labour activism, EGB wrote poetry, periodical essays, political pamphlets, religious criticism, plays, and an autobiograpical sketch. Her work was admired by her contemporaries Katharine Tynan , Æ (George Russell ), and W. B. Yeats . In 1935, critic Richard Fox wrote that EGB had an assured place in Irish literary history, but in the early twenty-first century all of her texts are out of print. She is now best known as the sister of Irish patriot and feminist Constance Markievicz , and for Yeats 's elegy In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markievicz.
Donoghue, Emma. “’How could I fear and hold thee by the hand?’: The Poetry of Eva Gore-Booth”. Sex, Nation, and Dissent in Irish Writing, edited by Éibhear Walshe and Éibhear Walshe, St Martin’s Press, 1997, pp. 16-42.
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Black and white, close-up photograph of Eva Gore-Booth in profile; it appears to be cropped from a larger group photo. Her hair is bushy and pinned up.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production W. B. Yeats
WBY 's The Winding Stair and Other Poems was published; its opening poem commemorates Irish writers and activists Eva Gore-Booth and Constance Markiewicz .
Wade, Allan, and Russell K. Alspach. A Bibliography of the Writings of W.B. Yeats. Hart-Davis, 1968.
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“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Friends, Associates Evelyn Underhill
EU and her husband led active social lives, often entertaining friends and colleagues at their home. Blanche Alethea Crackanthorpe introduced her to Marie Belloc Lowndes , who became a friend of Underhill and called her...
Textual Features Katharine Tynan
She limited her selection to Irish lyrical poetry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, excluding political poems and poems either derived from English or already well-known to English audiences. Her wide range of poets included...
Friends, Associates Katherine Cecil Thurston
Through these social engagements, KCT came into contact with several significant figures of the day. At a dinner given by Colonel George Harvey , for instance, she probably met Mr and Mrs Winston Churchill ...
Reception Dora Sigerson
Katharine Tynan and Eva Gore-Booth compiled a collection of poems by other people entitled In Memoriam: Dora Sigerson , 1918-1923, of which DS 's husband, Clement Shorter , privately printed twenty-five copies.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Intertextuality and Influence Maude Royden
Before launching her argument, MR acknowledges how her work has been influenced by Eva Gore-Booth 's Women's Wages and the Franchise, and Certain Legislation Proposals (1906). The NUWSS reissued MR 's pamphlet in February 1912.
Reception Martin Ross
The Corinthian Dinner Committee of Dublin honoured Irish women writers including Edith Somerville , Martin Ross , Lady Gregory , Eva Gore-Booth , Emily Lawless , Susan Mitchell , and Katharine Tynan .
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber, 1968.
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Textual Production Emmeline Pankhurst
The other contributors to this important collection were Shaw himself (again pseudonymous) and Mabel Atkinson , Florence Balgarnie , Eva Gore-Booth , Robert F. Cholmeley , Charlotte Despard , Millicent Garrett Fawcett , Keir Hardie
politics Christabel Pankhurst
CP met Eva Gore-Booth and Esther Roper , founders of the North of England Women's Suffrage Society ; she was their political apprentice for the following three years.
Purvis, June. Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography. Routledge, 2002.
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Winslow, Barbara, and Sheila Rowbotham. Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. UCL Press, 1996.
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politics Dora Marsden
The University Settlement at Manchester sponsored the Fawcett Debating Society , whose all-female speakers addressed such topics as the state and the home, women in politics, marriage, and child labour. Dora's contemporaries within and outside...
Reception Augusta Gregory
Bernard Shaw saw Lady Gregory as a born playwright . . . . doomed from the cradle to write for the stage, to break through every social obstacle to get to the stage, to refuse...
Intertextuality and Influence Constance Countess Markievicz
CCM appears in many poems by her sister Eva Gore-Booth , especially after the Easter Rising of 1916. Gore-Booth's several poems about the event and about her own and her sister's roles in it include...
politics Constance Countess Markievicz
With her sisters Eva and Mabel , Constance Gore-Booth (later Markievicz) launched a branch of the Irish Women's Suffrage and Local Government Association ; this was one of the first of such organizations in Ireland.
Haverty, Anne. Constance Markievicz: An Independent Life. Pandora, 1988.
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Lewis, Gifford. Eva Gore-Booth and Esther Roper: A Biography. Pandora Press, 1988.
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politics Constance Countess Markievicz
Constance, Countess Markievicz, spent time in Manchester where, along with her sister Eva Gore-Booth and Eva's companion Esther Roper , she campaigned against a Licensing Bill which would have banned women from working as barmaids.
Haverty, Anne. Constance Markievicz: An Independent Life. Pandora, 1988.
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Fictionalization Constance Countess Markievicz
W. B. Yeats wrote his famous poem In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markievicz, about the two Irish sisters, activists, and writers.
Smith, D. J. “The Countess and the Poets: Constance Gore-Booth Markievicz in the Work of Irish Writers”. Journal of Irish Literature, Vol.
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, No. 1, 1983, pp. 3-63.
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Texts

Gore-Booth, Eva. A Psychological and Poetic Approach to the Study of Christ in the Fourth Gospel. Longmans, 1923.
Gore-Booth, Eva et al. “Biographical Sketch”. Prison Letters of Countess Markievicz, edited by Esther Roper, Kraus, 1970, pp. 1-123.
Gore-Booth, Eva. Broken Glory. Maunsel, 1917.
Tynan, Katharine, and Eva Gore-Booth. In Memoriam: Dora Sigerson, 1918-1923. Privately printed by Clement Shorter, 1923.
Gore-Booth, Eva. “Introduction”. Poems of Eva Gore-Booth, edited by Esther Roper, Longmans, 1929, pp. 1-48.
Gore-Booth, Eva. “Introduction”. The Plays of Eva Gore-Booth, edited by Frederick S. Lapisardi, EMText, 1991, p. iii - xi.
Gore-Booth, Eva. Poems. Longmans, 1898.
Gore-Booth, Eva. Poems of Eva Gore-Booth. Editor Roper, Esther, Longmans, 1929.
Markievicz, Constance, Countess, and Eva Gore-Booth. Prison Letters of Countess Markievicz. Editor Roper, Esther, Longmans, Green, 1934.
Markievicz, Constance, Countess, and Eva Gore-Booth. Prison Letters of Countess Markievicz. Editor Roper, Esther, Kraus, 1970.
Gore-Booth, Eva, and Constance, Countess Markievicz. The Death of Fionavar from The Triumph of Maeve. Erskine MacDonald, 1916.
Gore-Booth, Eva. The Egyptian Pillar. Maunsel, 1907.
Gore-Booth, Eva. The One and the Many. Longmans, Green, 1904.
Gore-Booth, Eva. The Plays of Eva Gore-Booth. Editor Lapisardi, Frederick S., EMText, 1991.
Gore-Booth, Eva. The Sword of Justice. Headley Brothers, 1918.
Gore-Booth, Eva. The Three Resurrections; and, The Triumph of Maeve. Longmans, Green, 1905.
Gore-Booth, Eva, editor. Urania. Privately printed.