Eva Gore-Booth
Writer, Author
1870 – 1926
Who was Eva Gore-Booth?
Eva Selina Laura Gore-Booth was an Irish poet and dramatist, and a committed suffragist, social worker and labour activist. She was born at Lissadell House, County Sligo, the younger sister of Constance Gore-Booth, later known as the Countess Markievicz.
Both she and Constance, who later became a prominent Irish revolutionary, reacted against their privileged background and devoted themselves to helping the poor and disadvantaged. In 1895, Eva became seriously ill with threatened tuberculosis. In the following year, while convalescing in Italy, she met and fell in love with Esther Roper at the villa of Scottish writer George MacDonald. Esther Roper was the daughter of Edward Roper, a factory hand who later became a Missionary, and Annie Roper the daughter of Irish immigrants. Esther identified as half Irish. By 1896 Esther had been secretary of the North of England Society for Women's Suffrage for four years.
Eva returned briefly to her home at Lissadell and established a Sligo branch of the Irish Women's Suffrage and Local Government Association. Within months Eva rejected her privileged lifestyle and went to live in Manchester with Esther. They later became joint secretaries of the Women's Textile and Other Workers Representation Committee.
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- Born
- May 22, 1870
County Sligo - Siblings
- Spouses
- Kazimierz Dunin-Markiewicz
(1900/09/29 - )
- Kazimierz Dunin-Markiewicz
- Religion
- Anglicanism
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Académie Julian
- Lived in
- County Sligo
- Died
- Jun 30, 1926
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on July 23, 2013
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