Eva Gore-Booth : an image of such politics.

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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tiernan, Sonja
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Manchester University Press, 2016.
Temas:
Women social reformers > Ireland > Biography.
Réformatrices sociales > Irlande > Biographies.
Women social reformers
Ireland
Eva Gore- Booth.
Great War.
Irish independence.
Irish woman.
Roger Casement.
W.B. Yeats.
Winston Churchill.
aristocratic heritage.
gender equality.
industrial Manchester.
militant pacifism.
occult beliefs.
sexual equality.
spiritualism.
Biographies
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (296 pages)
ISBN:9780719094996
0719094992

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