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Cultural formation | Eva Gore-Booth | Several of EGB
's volumes are intensely concerned with religious issues. Her emphasis on love and empathy also shaped the social and political commitments she maintained during the last years of her life: she and... |
Cultural formation | Eva Gore-Booth | |
Education | Christabel Pankhurst | In 1904, with urging from her recently-made friend Esther Roper
, CP
considered studying law at Lincoln's Inn, as her father had done before her. Her application was dismissed on the grounds that she would... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Eva Gore-Booth | During her second stay in Italy, EGB
met Esther Roper
, a graduate of Victoria University
(Manchester) and a suffrage campaigner. Lewis, Gifford. Eva Gore-Booth and Esther Roper: A Biography. Pandora Press, 1988. 1, 51 Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications, 2002. 6: 408 |
Friends, Associates | Eva Gore-Booth | In 1901 future suffrage leader Christabel Pankhurst
met Esther Roper
at a meeting of the North of England Society for Women's Suffrage
(NESWS
). Roper introduced Pankhurst to EGB
immediately after this, and the... |
Health | Eva Gore-Booth | Her health had been especially poor from about 1920. After a holiday in Italy during the winter of 1920-21, she retired from most of her public work. She was nursed through her last illness by... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eva Gore-Booth | EGB
begins her essay by quoting at length from the manifesto, signed by herself and four other women (including Esther Roper
) in July 1904, of the |
Occupation | Eva Gore-Booth | EGB
worked with Esther Roper
and other volunteers at the Manchester University Settlement
at Ancoats Hall. Lewis, Gifford. Eva Gore-Booth and Esther Roper: A Biography. Pandora Press, 1988. 62 |
politics | Eva Gore-Booth | EGB
and Esther Roper
again offered some support to Christabel Pankhurst
and Annie Kenney
after their landmark protest at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester on 13 October 1905. But in 1906, they and other... |
politics | Eva Gore-Booth | During a Manchester by-election in Spring 1908, EGB
and Esther Roper
supported barmaids' right to work. Lewis, Gifford. Eva Gore-Booth and Esther Roper: A Biography. Pandora Press, 1988. 103 |
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. 73-4 |
politics | Constance, Countess Markievicz | CCM
was first imprisoned at Kilmainham
and Mountjoy
prisons in Dublin. As support began to grow for the Easter rebels (many now martyrs to the cause), she was moved to Aylesbury Jail
in England... |
politics | Eva Gore-Booth | EGB
and Esther Roper
were among the founders of the Lewis, Gifford. Eva Gore-Booth and Esther Roper: A Biography. Pandora Press, 1988. 89 |
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... |
politics | Eva Gore-Booth | EGB
and Esther Roper
were among the organisers of the Women's International Congress
held at The Hague. At about the same time they became speakers for the No-Conscription Fellowship
. Lewis, Gifford. Eva Gore-Booth and Esther Roper: A Biography. Pandora Press, 1988. 163-5 |
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