On December 26, 1894, England married Reuben Shannon Lovinggood, the principal of Cameron Public School, in Birmingham, Alabama.
[2] James T. Haley included Lovinggood's 1894 address "Woman's Work in the Elevation of the Race"[3] in his Afro-American Encyclopaedia (1895).
In the address, Lovinggood argues that this is no difference between "Jews or Gentiles, black or white, male or female," and that elevation of one will uplift all.
She advocates for women to work for the betterment of humanity both inside and outside the home, to "study medicine, law, music, elocution and become the best in those professions."
For role models, Lovinggood points to women's work in medicine, anti-slavery campaigns, and suffrage.