Helen MacRae

[1] MacRae was a member of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) but soon joined the militant Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU),[1] and in 1911, she joined with Muriel Sackville (Countess de la War) and her daughter, Marie Corbett and daughters Margery and Cicely, Lilla Durham,[2] and others to establish the East Grinstead Suffrage Society (EGSS).

[1] In an EGSS parade through the town on their way to join the Women's Grand March in London, they were jeered by local people and had rotten tomatoes, eggs and turf thrown at them.

In 1912, MacRae broke the windows of London toyshop, Hamleys in Regent Street, causing damage valued as £200.

[2] By 1914, sisters Georgie (Georgiana) and Helen MacRae had a house, called Comforts Cottage in Edenbridge, Kent.

[10] A collection of MacRae's postcards including image of suffragettes on horse-drawn carriage outside their Clements Inn HQ, and one of Emily Davison, who died under the King's horse at Epsom,[3] and another of Godstone sent by Olive Walton,[11] were also sold.