Esther Roper was an English suffragist and social justice campaigner who fought for equal employment and voting rights for working-class women. Lifelong partner of Eva Gore-Booth.
The photo shows here as a student c.1892.
Esther Roper was an English suffragist and social justice campaigner who fought for equal employment and voting rights for working-class women. Lifelong partner of Eva Gore-Booth.
The photo shows here as a student c.1892.
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Esther Roper
Esther Roper, 1868 - 1938, Eva Gore-Booth, 1870 - 1926
Author and journalist. Born Abingdon and brought up in Putney. Her father was bankrupt and her mother had died by suicide by the time Dorothy was 22. Moved to Bloomsbury in 1896 and while working ...
Campaigner for gender and social justice. Born in Jamaica. 1914 met Garvey, joined the Universal Negro Improvement Association and became a Pan-Africanist campaigner. Moved to the US in 1918 wher...
Person, Gender Issues, Race Issues, Social Welfare, Jamaica, USA
NUWSS in Manchester, Labour MP for Jarrow. As Jarrow MP she played a prominent role in the 1936 Jarrow March. Minister of Education from July 1945 until her death. Born Manchester. Had a close per...
Community group. It originated with a group of committed Christian women who deplored the waste and futility of the protected lives of the majority of young girls who were only expected to be decor...
Co-founder of the Irishwomen’s Suffrage and Local Government Association. Born Anna Maria Fisher in County Cork, Ireland, to a large Quaker family already involved in social welfare and reform. Mar...
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