Esther Roper
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Esther Roper was the daughter of a Minister, a working woman, who had been one of the first women to graduate and gain her BA at Owens College in Manchester. Asthmatic and short sighted she was a skilled organiser, administrator and fund-raiser - at her best behind the scenes rather than in front. She worked for the women's department of Manchester University and as the Secretary of the North of England Suffrage Society; she was a committee member of The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies - its leader the veteran Millicent Mrs Henry Fawcett - as well as Secretary for the Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage.
Esther was extremely reticent, and little is known of her final years. Constance Markievicz, the sister of Esther`s lover Eva Gore-Booth, wrote of her: "The more one knows her, the more one loves her, and I feel so glad Eva and she were together, and so thankful that her love was with Eva to the end."
[edit] Sources
- Gifford Lewis, ‘Booth, Eva Selina Gore- (1870–1926)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 29 July 2006
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