Biographer Anne Haverty
notes that her conversion harmonise[d] with the quasi-mystical side
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of her personality and with her love of the natural world. CCM
also made the choice to convert for non-spiritual reasons: being...
Family and Intimate relationships
Eva Gore-Booth
EGB
's elder sister Constance
(later Countess Markievicz
) was an Irish patriot and the first woman MP in Britain (though as a member of Sinn Féin
she did not take her seat). The sisters'...
Family and Intimate relationships
Constance Countess Markievicz
CCM
was very close to one of her two sisters, Eva Gore-Booth
, who became a writer, suffragist, and labour activist. Constance's biographer Anne Haverty
describes their relationship as almost symbiotic.
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Friends, Associates
Constance Countess Markievicz
CCM
then joined a social circle unlike those she had been part of as a younger woman. She and Casimir lived nearby their close associate Æ
(George Russell
), with whom they sometimes exhibited...
politics
Constance Countess Markievicz
Constance was elected president of the association. Biographer Anne Haverty
notes that her first speech here (which was her first public address anywhere) showed how capable an agitator she might be: how sure was her...
politics
Constance Countess Markievicz
It was among her own boys' group that CCM
first began to go by the title of Madame rather than Countess. Anne Haverty
explains: In eschewing the Mrs of English usage, certain women showed...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Julia O'Faolain
The anger of Irish writers, JOF
argues, can be traced to the years of official censorship in Ireland (1929-67), as well as to the prudent self-censorship which followed. She recalls how in the 1940s a...
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Haverty, Anne. Constance Markievicz: An Independent Life. Pandora, 1988.