Her father, Arthur Lewis Raphael, was an addicted gambler and he died when she was a child.

[1] In 1902 she made a disastrous marriage to a corn merchant named Louis Mendl.

In 1906 she was helping the Liberal's election campaign when she found out about the Women's Social and Political Union.

They were close to Emmeline Pankhurst who once addressed a crowd from the balcony of their house while the police hovered below and they looked after her twenty strong entourage.

[1] She was one of those who needed care after she had been hurt at a Buckingham Palace protest when she was kicked by a police horse.

[1] She was taken to sisters Georgie (Georgiana) and Helen MacRae's "Comforts Cottage" in Edenbridge, Kent where they allowed fellow suffragettes to recover and recuperate.