Esther Roper was an English suffragist and social justice campaigner who fought for equal employment and voting rights for working-class women. Lifelong partner of Eva Gore-Booth.
The photo shows here as a student c.1892.
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Esther Roper
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Fawcett frieze - 29, Roper & Gore-Booth
Esther Roper, 1868 - 1938, Eva Gore-Booth, 1870 - 1926
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