[2] Wylie is best known for delivering a speech in support of women's suffrage during her 1912 Canadian speaking tour where she spoke the phrase "deeds not words".

[2] Her brother David James Wylie achieved a civil engineering degree from Cheltenham College and in 1880 he emigrated to Saskatchewan, Canada and became representative with the Provincial Rights Party, from 1905 to 1917.

The women of the WSPU were not afraid to use violence, go against the law, break windows, rebel against the political leaders as well as spend time in jail.

[12] When Wylie spoke in Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, with Aethel Tollemache, the women had to be escorted to the railway station by the Police in order to protect them from a crowd of young men who had howled at and rushed at them.

[16] Pankhurst felt that Wylie had an advantage in Canada as her brother David was in the Province of Saskatchewan Conservative government.

[20][dead link‍] She had a single major goal during her tour, to move Canadian women from passivity to demands to be heard.

[22][dead link‍] She also spoke in Vancouver and New Westminster in British Columbia[23] and addressed meetings in Regina, Moose Jaw and Maple Creek in Saskatchewan.

[24] Back in England, Wylie published articles about her tour including one called "Woman's position in Canada.

[2] Wylie's home was also considered a safe haven, nicknamed “the mouse hole” that Pankhurst used when she was hiding from the police.

[26] In 1919, Wylie was among a group of former suffragettes who raised a "testimonial fund" to support Christabel and Emmeline Pankhurst through a time of financial difficulty.