Poet and dramatist, and a committed suffragist, social worker and labour activist.
Born as Eva Selina Laura Gore-Booth in County Sligo, the younger sister of Constance Gore-Booth, who was later known as Countess Markievicz, an Irish revolutionary. From 1896 until her death she was the partner of Esther Roper.
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Eva Gore-Booth
Esther Roper, 1868 - 1938, Eva Gore-Booth, 1870 - 1926
Born in Edinburgh. Scientist, writer, dramatist and poet. Publicist of the campaign for sexual education. Advocate of family planning and founder of pioneer birth control clinic. Courageous crusade...
From their Twitter page: South London Fawcett Group is a local group of the Fawcett Society which campaigns nationally for equality between women and men.
Liberal Women’s Suffrage Society and was on the executive committee of the NUWSS. Born as Frances Campbell at Argyll Lodge in Kensington, her father being the 8th Duke of Argyll. Her brother, John...
Suffragist, socialist, poet, and autobiographer. Served on executive of the NUWSS and then joined WSPU and Women’s Tax Resistance League, whose members refused to pay taxes. Born as Dorothy France...
Born in Whitechapel. She was the first female doctor to be trained in Britain and went on to promote the medical training of women at a time when medicine was an all-male profession. Elder sister ...
