[3] As editor of the Women's page she wrote the column Home Loving Hearts under the pen name of "Lillian Laurie".

[4] Members of the Winnipeg branch of the Canadian Women's Press Club formed the nucleus of the Manitoba Political Equality League, which campaigned for women's suffrage, including Francis Marion Beynon,[a] Lillian Beynon Thomas, Nellie McClung and Ella Cora Hind.

[8] In 1917 A. Vernon Thomas was fired as legislative reporter of the Free Press for publicly opposing conscription, and the Thomases also moved to New York.

[3] Lillian Benyon Thomas and her sister worked at the Seamen's Church Institute, an Episcopalian Mission for sailors in New York.

She wrote a number of successful plays, including Among the Maples, Jim Barber's Spite Fence and As the Twig Is Bent.