In the 1911 census she spoiled her return by writing at the bottom of the form 'As a householder and ratepayer I deeply resent being denied the privilege of a citizen in the exercise of the parliamentary franchise'.
[1] When Courtauld was 21 her father bought her the 243 acre Knights Farm in Colne Engaine, Essex where she lived for the rest of her life.
[1] It was a mixed farm with a range of grain and fodder crops as well as dairy, beef, sheep, pigs and poultry.
She and Louise Wilkins were the proponents of the WFGA's idea to create small holdings for single women who had been in agriculture during the first world war.
[1] When the small holding initiative petered out in the 1930s it was put down to the deaths of Wilkins and Courtauld who had driven the idea along.