[2] Arthur Lyon Bowley, who was later known for his British economic statistics, began this study in the 1890s with work on trade and on wages and income.
His 1900 publication Wages in the United Kingdom in the Nineteenth Century was created using the unpaid assistance of Melvin when she was a researcher at the London School of Economics from 1896 to 1898.
She argued that Britain should follow the French model and require children to run or march during their morning break.
[1] Marvin belonged to the committee which presented the Women Graduate Suffrage Petition to the Liberal Prime Minister Henry Campbell-Bannerman in May 1906.
Her new husband proposed a Positivist wedding ceremony conducted by Frederic Harrison but she objected when she realised that it included a poor attitude to gender equality.