Purvis, June. Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography. Routledge.
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Winslow, Barbara, and Sheila Rowbotham. Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. UCL Press.
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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...
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...
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.
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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...
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...
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...
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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.