Several years later, she and several friends opened the Bryn Mawr School for Girls in 1885.

After the break, Ellicott formed a competing association, the State Equal Franchise League of Maryland, in 1911.

The club began publishing The New Voter, Maryland's first suffrage magazine.

After suffering from ill health for years, she died of pneumonia and a subsequent heart failure on May 14, 1914.

A large portion of the money went to establishing the Elizabeth King Ellicott Fellowship for the Political Education of Women at Goucher College.