Suffragette Georgiana Soloman

ID:

53.140/84

Production date:

1918

Location:

In Store

Photograph signed 'Georgiana M. Solomon 1918'.
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Photograph signed 'Georgiana M. Solomon 1918'.

Georgiana Solomon (1844-1933) was born in Edinburgh and later migrated to South Africa. She became principal of girls’ school the Good Hope Seminary and worked for temperance and social reform. She married liberal and reformist Saul Solomon.

In 1888 the Solomons and their 6 children moved to Britain. Saul Solomon died in 1892.

In 1907 Solomon and her daughter Daisy joined the London Society for Women's Suffrage. In 1908 they joined the Women's Social and Political Union and in 1909 Solomon donated money to the Women's Freedom League. She took part in three WSPU deputations to the House of Commons, the latter on 'Black Friday' in November 1910, when she was a victim of the violent police assaults in Parliament Square. Solomon was sentenced to a month's imprisonment in Holloway for participating in the window smashing protest of March 1912. < Hide

Measurements

H 139 mm; W 97 mm (paper), H 162 mm; W 121 mm (mount)

Materials

paper; card

Last Updated

2024-03-14