Constance, Countess Markievicz, and Eva Gore-Booth. Prison Letters of Countess Markievicz. Editor Roper, Esther, Kraus.
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Textual Production
Eva Gore-Booth
Esther Roper
posthumously published Poems of Eva Gore-Booth, a complete edition of her poetry, with the autobiographical fragment The Inner Life of a Child, and several letters.
Gore-Booth, Eva. Poems of Eva Gore-Booth. Editor Roper, Esther, Longmans.
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Textual Features
Eva Gore-Booth
Several of these poems concern people and places that figured significantly in her recent experiences. EGB
dedicated The Travellers to E.G.R.; it recalls her first meeting with Esther Roper
, who was to be...
Residence
Eva Gore-Booth
EGB
settled in Manchester, where she lived with her companion Esther Roper
and worked with numerous suffrage and labour organisations.
Haverty, Anne. Constance Markievicz: An Independent Life. Pandora.
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Publishing
Eva Gore-Booth
A number of these poems are reprinted in the Prison Letters of Countess Markievicz, edited and published by Esther Roper
in 1934.
Constance, Countess Markievicz, and Eva Gore-Booth. Prison Letters of Countess Markievicz. Editor Roper, Esther, Kraus.
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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.
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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 Lancashire and Cheshire Women Textile and Other Workers' Representation Committee.
Lewis, Gifford. Eva Gore-Booth and Esther Roper: A Biography. Pandora Press.
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...
Purvis, June. Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography. Routledge.
59
Winslow, Barbara, and Sheila Rowbotham. Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. UCL Press.
2-3
politics
Eva Gore-Booth
EGB
and Esther Roper
spent a week in Dublin supporting a number of the surviving Easter Rising rebels, particularly Gore-Booth's sister Constance Markievicz
.
Lewis, Gifford. Eva Gore-Booth and Esther Roper: A Biography. Pandora Press.
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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.
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Virginia Woolf
writes about the suffrage element of this by-election in The Years, through Rose Pargiter's activities...