She was a co-creator and editor of the feminist gender studies journal Urania.
[4] Cornish was a member of the Aëthnic Union, along with Eva Gore-Booth, Esther Roper, Thomas Baty and Jessey Wade.
[5] Cornish opposed children being indoctrinated into gender roles.
[6] She moved to Siena around 1895 and spent most of her life in Italy,[1] where she continued her work as co-editor of Urania.
[7] In 1914, she signed the Open Christmas Letter along with 100 other suffragists, including Gore-Booth and Roper.