She was living in Bristol and attended the West of England branch of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU).

[1] The following year she was arrested at the House of Commons after trying to lobby on behalf of the Women's Social and Political Union[2] on 29 June 1909.

[1] She returned to Bristol where she, the future policewoman Mary Allen and Annie Kenney were met at the station and a procession of supporters welcomed them.

[3] Like the Blathwayts, Dove-Wilcox offered lodging to suffragettes (including the extreme Mary Richardson) at her cottage in the Wye valley.

[4] Dove-Wilcox took over from Annie Kenney as the leader of the WSPU branch in the West of England in 1911,[2] and organised the 1911 census boycott in Trowbridge.