Esther Roper

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...

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...

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...

In 1901 future suffrage leader Christabel Pankhurst met Esther Roper at a meeting of the North of England Society for Women's Suffrage (NESWS ). Roper introduced Pankhurst to EGB immediately after this, and the...

EGB and Esther Roper again offered some support to Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenney after their landmark protest at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester on 13 October 1905. But in 1906, they and other...

During a Manchester by-election in Spring 1908, EGB and Esther Roper supported barmaids' right to work. Virginia Woolf writes about the suffrage element of this by-election in The Years, through Rose Pargiter's activities...

Several of EGB 's volumes are intensely concerned with religious issues. Her emphasis on love and empathy also shaped the social and political commitments she maintained during the last years of her life: she and...

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'...