Eva Gore-Booth: An image of such politics

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This is the first biography of the extraordinary Irish woman, Eva Gore-Booth. Gore-Booth rejected her aristocratic heritage, choosing to live and work amongst the poorest classes in industrial Manchester. Her work on behalf of barmaids, circus acrobats, flower sellers and pit-brow lasses is traced in this book. During one impressive campaign Gore-Booth orchestrated the defeat of Winston Churchill. Gore-Booth published volumes of poetry, philosophical prose and plays, becoming a respected and prolific author of her time and part of W.B. Yeats’s literary circle. The story of Gore-Booth’s life is captivating. Her close bond with her sister, an iconic Irish nationalist, provides a new insight into Countess Markievicz’s personal life. Gore-Booth’s life story vividly traces her experiences of issues such as militant pacifism during the Great War, the case for the reprieve of Roger Casement’s death sentence, sexual equality in the workplace and the struggle for Irish independence. Eva Gore-Booth: An image of such politics Half Title Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents List of illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introducing the Gore-Booth family 1. Life in the big house: childhood and Lissadell 2. A pair of oddities: meeting Esther Roper 3. The birth of a rebel: social reform in Manchester 4. Sadder and wiser women: Lancashire trade unions 5. Women who kick, shriek, bite and spit: suffragists and suffragettes 6. Defending barmaids: legislative proposals and Winston Churchill 7. World War One: from trade unionism to peace movements 8. Conscientious objectors and revolution: world war and an Irish rebellion 9. Roger Casement and the aftermath of the Easter Rising 10. Prison reform and military conscription in Ireland 11. Radical sexual politics and post-war religion 12. Final years Afterword Archival sources Major publications by Eva Gore-Booth Index