Sonja Tiernan

Eva Gore-Booth (eBook, ePUB)

An image of such politics

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first dedicated 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' 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Zando
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847795090
• Artikelnr.: 42372217

Autorenporträt

Sonja Tiernan is the Eamon Cleary Chair of Irish Studies and co-director of the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Otago

Inhaltsangabe

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 Bibliography of Archival Sources Major
publications by Eva Gore-Booth Notes Index