[1] A society had been proposed a month earlier by Emily Hornby at a public meeting and after a unanimous vote,[2] was founded by Edith Allan Bright, Lydia Allen Booth and Nessie Stewart-Brown[3] and initially had twenty four members.

[4] Millicent Fawcett, leader of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, attended the first meeting as a guest speaker.

[5][6] The society distinguished itself from the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and the Independent Labour Party, and became known as respectable "lady suffragists" as opposed to the more militant suffragettes.

[12] Bright invited Christabel Pankhurst to speak in Liverpool on 12 February 1909, which resulted in a "phenomenal demand for membership cards".

[16] In addition, the society tried to drum up support for their cause by holding small scale events, often with speakers at the Yamen Cafe in Liverpool's Bond Street.

[16] The society would take part in wider suffrage demonstrations, for example in June 1908, it supported a National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies event in London's Hyde Park and in June 1910 an event by all the Liverpool suffrage organisations at Liverpool's St Georges Hall[17] Eleanor Rathbone lead the society's campaigning in the 1910 Liverpool elections,[18] opening campaign shops on Smithdown Road, Bold Street and Stanley Road,[19] asking men to vote for anyone who would support votes for women, regardless of party.

[3] Lydia Allen Booth (née Butler)[23] was an American who was on the executive committee of Liverpool Ladies Union of Workers among Women and Girls.