[2] Lake was employed as the business manager of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)’s newspaper The Suffragette.
[4] On 30 April 1913, Lake was arrested alongside Beatrice Sanders, Rachel Barrett, Harriet Kerr and Flora Drummond when police raided the WSPU headquarters.
[9] In June 1913, she was transferred to Warwick Goal in Warwickshire, where she went on hunger strike and was force fed.
[10] She was so unwell by October 1913 that she was moved into a nursing home in Royal Leamington Spa under the "Cat and Mouse Act.
[11] Lake was later dismissed from her role with the WSPU's newspaper, which Christabel Pankhurst said was "purely a business matter".