Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Eva Gore-Booth
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Standard Name: Gore-Booth, Eva
Birth Name: Eva Selina Gore-Booth
In addition to her intense suffrage and labour activism, EGB
wrote poetry, periodical essays, political pamphlets, religious criticism, plays, and an autobiograpical sketch. Her work was admired by her contemporaries Katharine Tynan
, Æ (George Russell
), and W. B. Yeats
. In 1935, critic Richard Fox
wrote that EGB
had an assured place in Irish literary history, but in the early twenty-first century all of her texts are out of print. She is now best known as the sister of Irish patriot and feminist Constance Markievicz
, and for Yeats
's elegy In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markievicz.
Donoghue, Emma. “’How could I fear and hold thee by the hand?’: The Poetry of Eva Gore-Booth”. Sex, Nation, and Dissent in Irish Writing, edited by Éibhear Walshe and Éibhear Walshe, St Martin’s Press, 1997, pp. 16-42.
CCM
was a nationalist rebel whose work for the cause of Ireland led to five terms served in prison. Her parents were Anglo-Irish, Protestant property owners. The family divided their time between their Irish country...
Family and Intimate relationships
Constance Countess Markievicz
Near the end of her life, CCM
spent more time with her daughter Maeve
, who had been brought up by Constance's mother
, and with her husband Casimir
, who had not shared his...
Family and Intimate relationships
Constance Countess Markievicz
CCM
was very close to one of her two sisters, Eva Gore-Booth
, who became a writer, suffragist, and labour activist. Constance's biographer Anne Haverty
describes their relationship as almost symbiotic.
Haverty, Anne. Constance Markievicz: An Independent Life. Pandora, 1988.
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Fictionalization
Constance Countess Markievicz
W. B. Yeats
wrote his famous poem In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth
and Con Markievicz, about the two Irish sisters, activists, and writers.
Smith, D. J. “The Countess and the Poets: Constance Gore-Booth Markievicz in the Work of Irish Writers”. Journal of Irish Literature, Vol.
12
, No. 1, 1983, pp. 3-63.
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Friends, Associates
Evelyn Underhill
EU
and her husband led active social lives, often entertaining friends and colleagues at their home. Blanche Alethea Crackanthorpe
introduced her to Marie Belloc Lowndes
, who became a friend of Underhill and called her...
Friends, Associates
Katherine Cecil Thurston
Through these social engagements, KCT
came into contact with several significant figures of the day. At a dinner given by Colonel George Harvey
, for instance, she probably met Mr
and Mrs Winston Churchill
...
Intertextuality and Influence
Maude Royden
Before launching her argument, MR
acknowledges how her work has been influenced by Eva Gore-Booth
's Women's Wages and the Franchise, and Certain Legislation Proposals (1906). The NUWSS reissued MR
's pamphlet in February 1912.
Intertextuality and Influence
Constance Countess Markievicz
CCM
appears in many poems by her sister Eva Gore-Booth
, especially after the Easter Rising of 1916. Gore-Booth's several poems about the event and about her own and her sister's roles in it include...
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
Constance Countess Markievicz
Having publicly advocated a police boycott in May 1919, CCM
was again arrested and sentenced to four months at Cork Jail
. She kept in close contact with her sister Eva Gore-Booth
, friend and...
Purvis, June. Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography. Routledge, 2002.
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Winslow, Barbara, and Sheila Rowbotham. Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. UCL Press, 1996.
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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...
Haverty, Anne. Constance Markievicz: An Independent Life. Pandora, 1988.
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Lewis, Gifford. Eva Gore-Booth and Esther Roper: A Biography. Pandora Press, 1988.
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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, 1988.
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Reception
Dora Sigerson
Katharine Tynan
and Eva Gore-Booth
compiled a collection of poems by other people entitled In Memoriam: Dora Sigerson
, 1918-1923, of which DS
's husband, Clement Shorter
, privately printed twenty-five copies.