Esther Roper

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.

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...

CP met Eva Gore-Booth and Esther Roper , founders of the North of England Women's Suffrage Society ; she was their political apprentice for the following three years.

In 1904, with urging from her recently-made friend Esther Roper , CP considered studying law at Lincoln's Inn, as her father had done before her. Her application was dismissed on the grounds that she would...