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Eva Gore-Booth An image of such politics
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Eva Gore-Booth [electronic resource] : An image of such politics
ISBN
0719094992
9780719094996
Published
Oxford : Manchester University Press, 2016. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
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1 online resource (296 pages))
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Summary
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.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 15, 2020
Contents
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 movements8. 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.
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