Harriet Emma Mahood (1860–1940), known as Hattie or Harriett, was the first female deacon in the Baptist Church, a British constitutional women's suffrage campaigner and a strong supporter of the Temperance Movement.

[4][5] This article was also favourably reviewed in The Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser of 3 April 1901, which stated that: "Mrs Mahood has some searching criticism of modern ideals" and she is quoted as condemning "an extreme want of reserve, self-respect and dignity….of the girls of today.

For example, in the Parr Hall, Warrington, where a crowd of hundreds attended, Mahood was reported as supporting this Bill because its provisions ‘meant a drastic step in temperance reform’ and ‘the evils of drink had long been a curse in the land'.

[12] Mahood spoke outside St George’s Hall Liverpool in June[13] and, alongside Ada Broughton, in Seacombe in July 1908.

The news item reporting this appointment also notes her membership of the Pembroke Chapel, and describes her as an "ardent advocate of women's suffrage".

[17] In June, she spoke at Birkenhead along with suffrage leaders Dr Alice Ker and Ada Flatman at the town's Park Gates.

"[19] In the same month, Liverpool was the scene of another rally, which attracted a huge crowd in front of St. George's Hall in a demonstration organised by the WSPU.

[1] Mahood's name is again (after some years ) mentioned in connection with the Mission of Love in 1912, when her support in the "cleaning and clothing of poor children" is noted in the local press.

[24] Krista Cowman’s  analysis of Engendering Citizenship The Political Involvement of Women on Merseyside, 1890 – 1920 states that Mahood "gave up the WSPU, socialism and Pembroke chapel following a breakdown in health in 1912.

[27] During World War One, in 1916, she applied to a local tribunal for exemption from military service of her working foreman and only man employed (Jas.

[2] The obituary also noted that she had been a deacon of the Pembroke Chapel and had been editor of Doctor Aked's "Plain Truth"; and that she made regular contributions of magazine articles to The Forum and Nineteenth century and after;  and it stated her active involvement in the suffrage movement.

[2] In 2018, to mark the centenary of the Representation of the People Act 1918, Mahood’s contribution was featured in an exhibition at the Chapel Gallery, Ormskirk (from October 2018 – January 2019) and many of her letters were on public display.