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.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
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.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Textual Production Emmeline Pankhurst
The other contributors to this important collection were Shaw himself (again pseudonymous) and Mabel Atkinson , Florence Balgarnie , Eva Gore-Booth , Robert F. Cholmeley , Charlotte Despard , Millicent Garrett Fawcett , Keir Hardie
Textual Production W. B. Yeats
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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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...

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