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, pp. 16-42.
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Black and white, close-up photograph of Eva Gore-Booth in profile; it appears to be cropped from a larger group photo. Her hair is bushy and pinned up.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Constance, Countess Markievicz
CCM also illustrated the text for Eva Gore-Booth 's 1916 play, The Death of Fionavar from The Triumph of Maeve. This text received more public attention than most of Gore-Booth's other works, mainly because...
Textual Production Constance, Countess Markievicz
Roper had been the companion of CCM 's late sister Eva Gore-Booth ; both had been very close to Markievicz. The collection included letters written by Markievicz between 1916 and 1926, both inside and outside...
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
With her sisters Eva and Mabel , Constance Gore-Booth (later Markievicz) launched a branch of the Irish Women's Suffrage and Local Government Association ; this was one of the first of such organizations in Ireland.
Haverty, Anne. Constance Markievicz: An Independent Life. Pandora.
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Lewis, Gifford. Eva Gore-Booth and Esther Roper: A Biography. Pandora Press.
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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.
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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.
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, No. 1, pp. 3-63.
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Cultural formation Constance, Countess Markievicz
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
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.
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Residence Constance, Countess Markievicz
CCM spent much of her childhood at Lissadell. Here, she and her sister Eva claimed a drawing-room, the glory hole, as their own, where they painted and wrote poetry respectively. Constance also developed...
Wealth and Poverty Constance, Countess Markievicz
Despite his title and their family backgrounds, Constance and Casimir were not wealthy. CCM 's father kept to the rule of male inheritance and within that primogeniture: when he died in 1900, he left almost...
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...
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...
Textual Production Constance, Countess Markievicz
While CCM 's sister Eva Gore-Booth was a successful poet (as well as a feminist and labour activist), and Constance occasionally experimented with her own poetry. She wrote while in jail, and her poems are...
Reception Augusta Gregory
Bernard Shaw saw Lady Gregory as a born playwright . . . . doomed from the cradle to write for the stage, to break through every social obstacle to get to the stage, to refuse...

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Texts

Gore-Booth, Eva. A Psychological and Poetic Approach to the Study of Christ in the Fourth Gospel. Longmans, 1923.
Gore-Booth, Eva et al. “Biographical Sketch”. Prison Letters of Countess Markievicz, edited by Esther Roper, Kraus, 1970, pp. 1-123.
Gore-Booth, Eva. Broken Glory. Maunsel, 1917.
Tynan, Katharine, and Eva Gore-Booth. In Memoriam: Dora Sigerson, 1918-1923. Privately printed by Clement Shorter, 1923.
Gore-Booth, Eva. “Introduction”. Poems of Eva Gore-Booth, edited by Esther Roper, Longmans, 1929, pp. 1-48.
Gore-Booth, Eva. “Introduction”. The Plays of Eva Gore-Booth, edited by Frederick S. Lapisardi, EMText, 1991, p. iii - xi.
Gore-Booth, Eva. Poems. Longmans, 1898.
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.
Gore-Booth, Eva, and Constance, Countess Markievicz. The Death of Fionavar from The Triumph of Maeve. Erskine MacDonald, 1916.
Gore-Booth, Eva. The Egyptian Pillar. Maunsel, 1907.
Gore-Booth, Eva. The One and the Many. Longmans, Green, 1904.
Gore-Booth, Eva. The Plays of Eva Gore-Booth. Editor Lapisardi, Frederick S., EMText, 1991.
Gore-Booth, Eva. The Sword of Justice. Headley Brothers, 1918.
Gore-Booth, Eva. The Three Resurrections; and, The Triumph of Maeve. Longmans, Green, 1905.
Gore-Booth, Eva, editor. Urania. Privately printed.