Esther Roper

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...

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...

During a Manchester by-election in Spring 1908, EGB and Esther Roper supported barmaids' right to work. Virginia Woolf writes about the suffrage element of this by-election in The Years, through Rose Pargiter's activities...

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...

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...

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.

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...