After the First World War and the achievement of the vote, she continued in what was now Northern Ireland to campaign on issues of domestic violence and sex discrimination.

She is sometimes confused in bibliographies with her contemporary, the American feminist writer, Elizabeth McCracken (1876-1964), author of The Women of America (1904).

She chronicled the progression of the female heroine "from a passive creature with whom fortune played, willy-nilly, subordinate to the conventions of sex, a spectator in the game of life" to the New Woman ideal of Sarah Grand— "a capable being, with power and opportunity to shape her own lot".

[12] Writing to the Belfast News Letter, she noted the failure Unionist women to formulate "any demand on their own behalf or that of their own sex".

In March 1914, after being door-stepped for four days in London, Edward Carson ruled that Unionists could not take a position on so divisive an issue as women's suffrage.

[15] With Margaret MacCoubrey, Dr. Elizabeth Bell, Winifred Carney and others in the IWSS (formally disbanded in April 1914),[16] McCracken had joined the WSPU.

But it is not clear what direct hand she had, if any, in the campaign that followed: targeting Unionist properties[17] and culminating in Lilian Metge's bombing of Lisburn Cathedral.

She denounced the hypocrisy of men who, having subjected militant suffragists to a campaign "vituperation and invective", now, "with the most unblushing effrontery", asked women to approve "the most aggravated form of militancy—war".

[20] In 1915, she invited Sylvia Pankhurst, who opposed the wartime suspension of WSPU agitation by her sister Christabel, to Belfast to speak in support equal pay for women doing war work.

[8][22] In reinforcing this dependence, she argued that the privacy of the home pressured women to keep domestic rape and abuse silent.