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Eva Gore-Booth : An image of such politics
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Manchester University Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780719094996 |