[5] After graduating, she made a trip to the Americas with her father, travelling first to Canada to attend the British Association meeting in Montreal[6] and then touring from the Pacific Northwest coast of the United States all the way back to New York City before heading home.
[4] On 15 June 1890, she married Hubert LeGay Solly[8] (23 April 1856 – 1 December 1912)[9] an English engineer who was working abroad due to health issues for the South African government on the railroads.
Schreiner was concerned about factionalism and exhorted Solly to put aside religious or racial differences and eliminate divisive elements, like one-time president, Irene Macfadyen (1907–1908), who was simultaneously a member of an anti-women's suffrage group.
[2] During World War I, Solly co-founded, with Unitarian minister Ramsden Balmforth, the South African Peace and Arbitration Society.
[18] Around the same time she joined the International Federation for the Abolition of State Regulation of Vice, in an attempt to redirect misguided prostitutes lured by the excitement of the moment.
[23] By 1935, Solly was serving as vice-president of the National Council of Women and was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal in that year for her service.
[24] Solly and Balmforth abandoned their pacifist stance during World War II, believing that Hitler had to be defeated at all costs.