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.

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...