[2] The late 1820s found her preaching from the pulpit of a ‘Jacobinical’ chapel in Grub Street, and later to the platforms of Owenite co-operation.

By 1832 she as the manager of the largest labour exchange where people bartered goods and services on the basis of the number of hours that was invested in them.

Macauley delivered lectures on financial reform, child development, the evils of Christian orthodoxy, and women's rights.

"Women have too long been considered as playthings, or as slaves", she said July 1832, "but I hope the time is at hand, when we shall hold a more honourable rank in the scale of creation".

[3] She also offered acting lessons to her fellow socialists, including to a group of French Saint-Simonians visiting London in the early 1830s.