Dr Sonja Tiernan
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 25 Jun
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Esther then devotes basically the rest of her life to keeping her literature alive, publishing anything that she has found that hasn't been published and continuing any of her manuscripts.
She also tries to get unsuccessfully her plays produced.
She is...
Eva was friendly with Sarah Purser and Esther Roper contacts Sarah Purser thinking that she might be able to help.
But certainly Yates is not to be swayed about having her plays produced on the stage in the Abbey, which is...
which is very sad, actually, in many instances.
But she publishes, not only does she kind of publish a complete volume of her work, but Esther does a very large introduction to it that's very detailed.
She contacts people like the textile workers in Manchester that Eva would have set up
groups for and gets some comments from that.
So you've got this like this wonderful, very detailed obituaries essentially at the beginning of it, which is a really kind of fine tribute to Eva.
She also gets a stained glass window commissioned from Anteered Linna, the gorgeous stained glass workshop that Sarah Purser has begun.
And that is
put it into the Roundhouse, which was a building in Manchester, in this very poor working class district at the time, where Eva had given classes.
Unfortunately, that, because it seems to be, we have kind of images of the window, there's a face, a portrait of Eva in amongst the stained glass and some of her text on it as well.
But when that building is taken down in the 80s, the window has disappeared and
Despite everything, I couldn't trace it.
Absolutely.
And this is pretty radical at the turn of the 20th century as well, actually, these radical ideals.
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