Eva Gore-Booth : an image of such politics

Eva Gore-Booth : an image of such politics / Sonja Tiernan.

"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 among the poorest classes in industrial Manchester. Her work on behalf of barmaids, circus acrobats, flower sellers, and pit-brow las...

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Main Author: Tiernan, Sonja
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Subjects:
Gore-Booth, Eva, > 1870-1926.
Women social reformers > Ireland > Biography.
Social reformers > Ireland > Biography.
Women authors, Irish > 20th century > Biography.
Authors, Irish > Biography.
Ireland > History > 1837-1901 > Biography.
Ireland > History > 20th century > Biography.
History
Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • Introducing the Gore-Booth Family
  • Life in the Big House: Childhood and Lissadell
  • A Pair of Oddities: Meeting Esther Roper
  • The Birth of a Rebel: Social Reform in Manchester
  • Sadder and Wiser Women: Lancashire Trade Unions
  • Women who Kick, Shriek, Bite and Spit: Suffragists and Suffragettes
  • Defending Barmaids: Legislative Proposals and Winston Churchill
  • World War One: from Trade Unionism to peace Movements
  • Conscientious Objectors and Revolution: World War and an Irish Rebellion
  • Roger Casement and the Aftermath of the Easter Rising
  • Prison Reform and Military Conscription in Ireland
  • Radical Sexual Politics and Post-War Religion
  • Final Years.

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