Eva Gore-Booth: An image of such politics By Sonja Tiernan

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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 life is captivating. Her close bond with her sister, an iconic Irish nationalist, provides a new insight into Countess Markievicz’s personal life. Gore-Booth’s life story vividly traces her experiences of issues such as militant pacifism during the Great War, the case for the reprieve of Roger Casement’s death sentence, sexual equality in the workplace and the struggle for Irish independence.

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Like many people, I imagine, I came to know of Eva Gore-Booth through reading about her sister, the Irish revolutionary Constance Markievicz. I think Countess Markievicz a very interesting historical figure, but for reasons I still can't quite define, I find myself fascinated by Eva Gore-Booth. Sadly, while probably about a dozen biographies of the Countess have been written in the last 80 years, there appear to be only two treatments of her sister's life at any length: 1988's dual biography Eva Gore-Booth and Esther Roper: A Biography (Valient Women Series) by Gifford Lewis, and this book by Sonja Tiernan. This latter book is a remarkable book, and was completely worth the eagerness with which I waited for it to come through the door. I recommend it highly.Eva Gore-Booth is unquestionably a challenge for the biographer. Unlike her sister, who loved to put herself on center stage figuratively and literally, Eva by temperament as well as health tended to keep herself in the wings. While active in, and indeed central to, many of the causes most important to her, that nature often caused her to be overlooked at the time, and forgotten since. Compounding the difficulty, Eva kept her private life very private indeed, and many of her personal papers were destroyed or returned to her family following her death. Even after the impressive and thorough degree of research Sonja Tiernan did to prepare this biography, then, Eva remains something of a cypher on the personal level.In that earlier biography, Gifford Lewis states that a further reason Eva is often overlooked is because of the alleged difficulty in describing, or as we would say today, "labeling," her relationship with Esther Roper. Eva and Esther met in what sounds a lot like a case of love at first sight, and remained together until Eva's death thirty years later -- indeed, they remain together still, buried under a common headstone in a London churchyard. Lewis argues at some length that the two were friends, collaborators, each other's inspiration ... "life partners" in every sense of the term except the physical. Theirs was a "passionate," even "ecstatic" friendship, Lewis says, but they were emphatically not lovers. At considerably less length but with more convincing logic, Sonja Tiernan says "yes they were." While we will likely never know the physical nature of their relationship, lesbianism -- or indeed any form of sexual orientation -- is about more than physical acts. Eva and Esther's evident lifelong devotion to one another, and the evident role Eva's sexuality had on her life and work, show Lewis' arguments don't stand up..As I say, though, questions of sexuality are not central to Tiernan's biography of Eva. Where this book really shines is in the analysis of Eva's public work: her life as a union organizer, suffragist, feminist, and antiwar activist, as well as a poet, artist, and religious and sexual reformer. In all those fields, although she was a tireless worker and excellent organizer, Eva's principal tool was her pen, and Tiernan analyzes both Eva's deeds and her words in satisfying detail (I strongly encourage you to read this book with a copy of The political writings of Eva Gore-Booth , which Tiernan edited, by your side: Nearly all the works quoted in the biography are printed in full in the latter book, and are definitely worth reading). I was particularly interested in Eva's work in opposition to World War I and in support of conscientious objectors (readers also interested in this topic should check out Adam Hochschild's To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 , a well-told history of British opposition to the war, although -- perhaps in confirmation of challenge I described above -- Eva's name does not appear in its pages). The other topic I was particularly intrigued by was Eva and Esther's work with Urania, the journal they founded to promote feminism and "unconventional views regarding sexuality and gender" (p. 227). One of my standards for measuring the worth of a book is how many other things that book inspires me to read. My to-read list is a lot longer now as a result of this biography -- starting with trying to find a decent copy of Eva's Collected Poems. (I'm just not sure if I can trust all these $15 reprint volumes.)I hope this book and the Political Writings succeed in bringing a bit of attention to the life of Eva Gore-Booth. She deserves not simply the reflected light of her acclaimed sister, but a spotlight of her own in the literary, political, and social history of both the UK and Ireland. Sonja Tiernan, in turn, deserves thanks for reminding us of that.(NOTE: I came back to this review and edited the above discussion of Lewis after reading a 2011 journal article by Tiernan titled "Challenging Presumptions of Heterosexuality: Eva Gore-Booth, a Biographical Case Study." Tiernan, to my mind, demonstrates convincingly that Lewis' dual biography is "an example of how homosexuals are written out of history," and in fact produces evidence to show this was precisely Lewis' intent. On the whole, "She [Lewis] attempts to disprove that Eva was a lesbian when the facts of her life, love, and literature all prove otherwise.")

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