[2] They were both members by 1902 of the Central Society for Women's Suffrage and they were soon joining celebrations of civil disobedience in pursuit of their cause.
In 1912 she was smashing West End shop windows as part of a Women's Social and Political Union demonstration.
She was sentenced in March 1912 and she was jailed for four months during which time she went on hunger strike and was force fed.
[2] She and Sylvia Pankhurst founded the East London branch of the Women's Social and Political Union on 27 May 1913[1] and in the same year her mother was secretary of the Hampstead United Suffragists.
She went on be a rural district councillor and to lecture on home produced food to meetings of Women's Institutes.