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...

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.

EGB and Esther Roper were among the organisers of the Women's International Congress held at The Hague. At about the same time they became speakers for the No-Conscription Fellowship .

EGB and Esther Roper spent a week in Dublin supporting a number of the surviving Easter Rising rebels, particularly Gore-Booth's sister Constance Markievicz .

Esther Roper posthumously published Poems of Eva Gore-Booth, a complete edition of her poetry, with the autobiographical fragment The Inner Life of a Child, and several letters.

EGB 's family was Anglo-Irish (though her mother was English) and Protestant; they owned property both in the West of Ireland and in Manchester. EGB rejected much of this heritage during her adulthood. From...