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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Textual Production
Constance, Countess Markievicz
Seven years after Constance, Countess Markievic
, died, Esther Roper
collected and published the Prison Letters of Countess Markievicz.
Constance, Countess Markievicz, and Eva Gore-Booth. Prison Letters of Countess Markievicz. Editor Roper, Esther, Kraus.
title-page
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...
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...
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...
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.
title-page
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 Lancashire and Cheshire Women Textile and Other Workers'...
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.
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Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications.
6: 408
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.
Lewis, Gifford. Eva Gore-Booth and Esther Roper: A Biography. Pandora Press.
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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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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.
title-page
Cultural formation
Eva Gore-Booth
EGB
's family was Anglo-Irish (though her mother was English) and Protestant; they owned property both in the West of Ireland and in Manchester. EGB
rejected much of this heritage during her adulthood. From...
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Texts
Gore-Booth, Eva et al. “Biographical Sketch”. Prison Letters of Countess Markievicz, edited by Esther Roper, Kraus, 1970, pp. 1-123.
Gore-Booth, Eva. “Introduction”. Poems of Eva Gore-Booth, edited by Esther Roper, Longmans, 1929, pp. 1-48.
Gore-Booth, Eva. Poems of Eva Gore-Booth. Editor Roper, Esther, Longmans, 1929.
Constance, Countess Markievicz, and Eva Gore-Booth. Prison Letters of Countess Markievicz. Editor Roper, Esther, Longmans, Green, 1934.
Constance, Countess Markievicz, and Eva Gore-Booth. Prison Letters of Countess Markievicz. Editor Roper, Esther, Kraus, 1970.