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*. (AC)