[2] Ashworth was not merely a member of the Women's Social and Political Union but she organised celebrations at the Savoy Hotel when suffragettes were released from Holloway Prison.

She was a powerful speaker on the subject of gaining votes for women and she was compared to her uncle Jacob Bright.

[4] In 1871 she served as a speaker in a large tour organised by the Society around the west country to drum up public support for the suffrage movement.

One Editor, in moving a vote of thanks, said :—"He had never heard ladies speak before, and could not help thinking that those who could be so interesting and amusing on a platform must be very pleasant, good comrades to live with at home.

[6] In 1877 Lilias married Thomas Hallett, who had been appointed as a lecturer in Political Economy at the University of Bristol in 1876.