[1] Wilson was born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire[2] and moved to Sheffield early in her childhood.

[3] In 1892 Wilson was House surgeon at the London Temperance Hospital.

[2] She worked in private practice in Sheffield from 1893[2] until 1906, when she retired to become actively involved in the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene,[4] previously known as the Ladies' National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts.

[1][5] From 1916 to 1919 she was Chair of the Women's Training Colony in Newbury, Berkshire,[6] a work camp that aimed to provide responsibility, independence and occupation.

[8] Archival materials relating to Wilson are held at The Women's Library at the London School of Economics, including a scrapbook of Dr Wilson's containing ephemera relating to the suffrage campaigns in Sheffield and the Sheffield Women's Suffrage Society.