As a non-violent suffragist, she was opposed to the militant actions of the Women's Social and Political Union, whose members were called the suffragettes.

[2] Lady Frances Campbell had a hip joint disease and from early childhood was in constant pain and walked with a limp.

She reportedly helped with these campaigns as a child, for example by knitting garments to be sent to the children of former slaves after slavery was formally banned by the government within the British territories in 1833.

However, in opposition to the Conservative politics of her husband's family, Balfour, along with both her parents, supported Liberal statesman William Gladstone and his government when she was a young woman.

[3]Lady Frances published six books, including her autobiography Ne Obliviscaris (Dinna Forget) and she was joint editor of Women and Progress with Nora Vynne.

[6] She died in London on 25 February 1931 from bronchial pneumonia[2] and heart failure, and was buried at Whittingehame, the Balfour family home in East Lothian, Scotland.