TY - BOOK ID - 78140914 TI - Eva Gore-Booth : an image of such politics PY - 2012 SN - 0719094992 9780719094996 9780719082313 0719082315 9780719082320 0719082323 PB - Manchester: Manchester University press, DB - UniCat KW - Women social reformers KW - Social reformers KW - Women authors, Irish KW - Authors, Irish KW - Gore-Booth, Eva, KW - Ireland KW - History KW - Women social reformers - Ireland - Biography KW - Social reformers - Ireland - Biography KW - Women authors, Irish - 20th century - Biography KW - Authors, Irish - Biography KW - Gore-Booth, Eva, - 1870-1926 KW - Ireland - History - 1837-1901 - Biography KW - Ireland - History - 20th century - Biography KW - Eva Gore- Booth. KW - Great War. KW - Irish independence. KW - Irish woman. KW - Roger Casement. KW - W.B. Yeats. KW - Winston Churchill. KW - aristocratic heritage. KW - gender equality. KW - industrial Manchester. KW - militant pacifism. KW - occult beliefs. KW - sexual equality. KW - spiritualism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78140914 AB - 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. ER -