Esther Roper
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Esther Roper was a suffragist and social justice campaigner who fought for equal employment and voting rights for working-class women.
Roper as a student at Owens College, c. 1892
Roper (seated), Edith Palliser (left), Mrs. Blaxter (right)
Eva Gore-Booth, Roper's partner
Emmeline Pankhurst
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Emmeline Pankhurst was a British political activist who organised the British suffragette movement and helped women to win the right to vote in Great Britain and Ireland in 1918, partially due to her
Esther Roper
…1906 Roper and Gore-Booth distanced themselves from Pankhurst's Women’s Social and Political Union. They disagreed with the use of militant tactics and Emmeline Pankhurst's lack of interest in campaigning for working-class women's rights. In 1913 Roper and Gore-Booth moved to London for the sake of Eva's health. In 1916…
Pankhurst, c. 1913
Lydia Becker was an early influence on Pankhurst and may have been enamoured of Pankhurst's father
Richard Pankhurst first caught Goulden's eye when she spied his "beautiful hand" opening the door of a taxi as he arrived at a public meeting in 1878
St Luke's Church, Pendleton