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
Author and philanthropist. Leonard Abraham Montefiore was born Kensington. Grand nephew to Moses. Was a friend of Oscar Wilde when they were both at Oxford University. Chief assistant to Samuel ...
Writer and good friend to Samuel Johnson. Born near Bwlheli, Caernarvonshire, as Hester Salusbury. In 1763 was married for money to Henry Thrale, a wealthy London brewer. An unhappy marriage, with ...
Suffragette. Nicknamed 'The General' for her habit of leading Women's Rights marches wearing a military style uniform 'with an officers cap and epaulettes' and riding on a large horse. Drummond was...
Public House. It was originally called the Mother Black Cap after a local legend concerning a witch, and had that name, according to licensing records, as early as 1751. In the mid 1960s it became ...
Central President of the Mothers' Union in 1925. We found reference to a publication probably authored by her: Barclay, E. Noel, Marriage and Divorce (1936).
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