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, pp. 16-42.
WBY
's The Winding Stair and Other Poems was published; its opening poem commemorates Irish writers and activists Eva Gore-Booth
and Constance Markiewicz
.
Wade, Allan, and Russell K. Alspach. A Bibliography of the Writings of W.B. Yeats. Hart-Davis.
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“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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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...
Textual Features
Katharine Tynan
She limited her selection to Irish lyrical poetry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, excluding political poems and poems either derived from English or already well-known to English audiences. Her wide range of poets included...
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
...
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...