However she applied her Liberal Party interests when she campaigned for Elizabeth Garrett Anderson to be a member of the local school board, unsuccessfully, in 1870.
She was part of second generation of women to get involved in school boards and she was a contemporary of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Annie Besant and Emily Davies.
[2] Maitland was said to be a key member of the Women's Local Government Society which had been renamed in 1893.
[2] In 1894 she was elected to the London School Board to represent Chelsea and she took a special interest in the education offered to children who were blind or deaf.
[1] She travelled abroad to find out the latest ideas for teaching the deaf and dumb.