Esther Roper

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.

Seven years after Constance, Countess Markievic , died, Esther Roper collected and published the Prison Letters of 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...

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...

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...

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...

A number of these poems are reprinted in the Prison Letters of Countess Markievicz, edited and published by Esther Roper in 1934.

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'...

During her second stay in Italy, EGB met Esther Roper , a graduate of Victoria University (Manchester) and a suffrage campaigner.

EGB settled in Manchester, where she lived with her companion Esther Roper and worked with numerous suffrage and labour organisations.

EGB worked with Esther Roper and other volunteers at the Manchester University Settlement at Ancoats Hall.

EGB and Esther Roper were among the founders of the Lancashire and Cheshire Women Textile and Other Workers' Representation Committee.