Esther Roper

CP met Eva Gore-Booth and Esther Roper , founders of the North of England Women's Suffrage Society ; she was their political apprentice for the following three years.

Constance, Countess Markievicz, spent time in Manchester where, along with her sister Eva Gore-Booth and Eva's companion Esther Roper , she campaigned against a Licensing Bill which would have banned women from working as barmaids.

A number of these poems are reprinted in the Prison Letters of Countess Markievicz, edited and published by Esther Roper in 1934.

EGB settled in Manchester, where she lived with her companion Esther Roper and worked with numerous suffrage and labour organisations.

Several of these poems concern people and places that figured significantly in her recent experiences. EGB dedicated The Travellers to E.G.R.; it recalls her first meeting with Esther Roper , who was to be...

Esther Roper posthumously published Poems of Eva Gore-Booth, a complete edition of her poetry, with the autobiographical fragment The Inner Life of a Child, and several letters.

Seven years after Constance, Countess Markievic , died, Esther Roper collected and published the Prison Letters of Countess Markievicz.