# Georgina Mitchener — Short Plays character guide

> Georgina Mitchener in Short Plays by George Bernard Shaw.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Georgina, She Poor dear Georgina, Mitchener Georgina, Mitchener, Mitchener Explosion, Mitchener Rising, Mitchener Calmly, Mitchener Show Mr. Balsquith, Mitchener Silence, Mitchener Nettled, Mitchener Cowards, Bismarck, Mitchener Bismarck

**First appearance:** 0027-press-cuttings

## Snapshot

A brisk, unflappable suffragette organizer in Press Cuttings, Georgina manages her hysterical household and the war between the sexes with the same cool competence.

## Who they are

Georgina runs the domestic side of the suffragette campaign, fielding phone calls, calming panics, and keeping the Prime Minister's household in order while the men around her lose their heads. Her calm practicality contrasts sharply with the blustering generals and flustered politicians who cannot decide whether to arrest her or apologize. She anchors the play's satire of anti-suffrage hysteria, showing that the woman everyone wants to silence is the only one in the room behaving like an adult.

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