Esther Roper

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'...

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...

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...

During her second stay in Italy, EGB met Esther Roper , a graduate of Victoria University (Manchester) and a suffrage campaigner.

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...

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...

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...