She was active in social welfare both locally and nationally, particularly the Girl Guides, and was one of the earliest women to enter Parliament, sitting as Conservative MP for Stoke from 1931 to 1935.

[3] On the death of her father, she and her brother Leone inherited the Villa di Rusciano designed by Brunelleschi for the Dukes of Urbino.

Funding and campaigning alongside Baden-Powell for the development of the Girl Guide movement, she served as a division commissioner for the north-west of the county from 1918.

Copeland faced Sir Oswald Mosley – leader of the New Party – amongst the opposing candidates, but her popularity and involvement in local politics and welfare proved fruitful.

Her husband's position as a leading china manufacturer in the Potteries, and her "moderate and straightforward appeal", won her an audience even outside factory gates.

"[16][17]She made another plea for protection of the china industry in December 1933 after reports that Australian and New Zealand markets were being flooded by cheap Japanese goods, including skilful imitations of British wares: "the competition is so severe that it threatens to sweep the English Potteries right out of those countries".