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Liberté, égalité, sororité
The poetics of suffrage in the work of Eva Gore-Booth and Constance Markievicz
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This chapter considers the poetry, drama and journalism of the Gore-Booth sisters, which articulated their individual attitudes to Irish nationality and their shared battle for sexual equality. Drawing on a wider discourse of suffrage that included the discourse of enslavement, both Constance Markievicz and Eva Gore-Booth looked to two forms of republicanism for a language in which to address suffrage: that of Revolutionary France and of the United Irishmen Rebellion of 1798. The sisters also addressed gender similarly: While Eva Gore-Booth’s theosophical pursuits led her to the dual nature of humanity, Constance Markievicz’s writing reflects a belief in the flexibility of gender. These principles are essential to understanding the way in which both sisters develop a poetics of suffrage that complements their political activism.

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Irish women’s writing, 1878–1922

Advancing the cause of liberty

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