Surname: Gore-Booth Forename(s): Eva Selina b. 22 May 1870. d. 30 June 1926. Nationality: Irish. VIAF.
Poet, dramatist, editor, prominent suffragist and labour activist, pacifist. Born
in County Sligo to a Protestant Anglo-Irish family, but she supported Irish nationalism.
Educated by governesses. Friends with W. B. Yeats. Companion of the working-class
suffragist Esther Roper, whom she met in Italy, and they lived together in Manchester
from c. 1897 (biographers disagree as to whether they were in a lesbian relationship).
Poetry volumes include Poems (1898), The One and the Many (1904), The Egyptian Pillar (1907), Broken Glory (1917). Biographical information: Orlando; Colman 99-100. (AC)