Lydia Becker

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Lydia Becker

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Ill health continued to take a toll and doctors from Gervais recommended Lydia travel the 40 miles to Geneva to see a specialist. Having deteriorated further, Lydia died in Geneva on 18 July 1890, reportedly of [[diphtheria]], aged 63. She was buried in the Geneva cemetery of St George on 21 July.
Ill health continued to take a toll and doctors from Gervais recommended Lydia travel the 40 miles to Geneva to see a specialist. Having deteriorated further, Lydia died in Geneva on 18 July 1890, reportedly of [[diphtheria]], aged 63. She was buried in the Geneva cemetery of St George on 21 July.


She was afterwards commemorated on the family gravestone in the St James churchyard at Altham . Her father had been church warden at St James.{{cite web |url=https://www.stjamesaltham.org/about-us/history-heritage/ |title=St James Church, About Us, History and Heritage |website=stjamesaltham.org}}{{cite book |author=Williams |first=Joanna M. |title=The Great Miss Lydia Becker Suffragist, Scientist, & Trailblazer |date=2022 |publisher=Pen & Sword Books |page=259-262}}
She was afterwards commemorated on the family gravestone in the St James churchyard at Altham. Her father had been church warden at St James.{{cite web |url=https://www.stjamesaltham.org/about-us/history-heritage/ |title=St James Church, About Us, History and Heritage |website=stjamesaltham.org}}{{cite book |author=Williams |first=Joanna M. |title=The Great Miss Lydia Becker Suffragist, Scientist, & Trailblazer |date=2022 |publisher=Pen & Sword Books |page=259-262}}


Rather than continue publishing in her absence, the staff of the ''Women's Suffrage Journal'' decided to cease production.
Rather than continue publishing in her absence, the staff of the ''Women's Suffrage Journal'' decided to cease production.
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