Non-pu postcard - “Dainty Novels” series - Eva Moore
Eva Moore (1868 – 27 April 1955) was an English actress. Her career on stage and in film spanned six decades, and she was active in the women's suffrage movement. In her 1923 book of reminiscences, Exits and Entrances, she describes approximately ninety of her roles in plays, but she continued to act on stage and in films until 1945.
Moore was born on 9 February 1868, the eighth of ten children, and educated in Brighton, Sussex. In 1891 she married actor/playwright Henry V. Esmond (1869–1922), with whom she had three children.
Moore was active in the suffrage movement (as was her sister Decima), attending meetings and appearing in suffragist plays and films. She was a founder of the Actresses' Franchise League in 1908, but resigned from that organisation when other members objected to her acting in a sketch called "Her Vote", by her husband, in which the heroine prefers kisses to votes.
After the First World War began, she continued acting at the Vaudeville in the evenings, but worked as a volunteer during the day for the Women's Emergency Corps, based at the Little Theatre. She raised money for hospital and wartime causes and was honoured with the Ordre de la Reine Elisabeth for her wartime activities.
From 1920 to 1946, Moore made over two dozen films. She published her reminiscences, Exits and Entrances, in 1923, but continued to act until 1945. In later years, she resided at Bisham, Maidenhead, Berkshire, England where she died aged 87 on 27 April 1955.