The branch was visited by leaders of the Scottish Federation of National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies in 1913;[2] and it grew to over 60 members.

In 1912 the suffragettes Lilias Mitchell and Elsie Howey attacked Prime Minister Asquith and Home Secretary Reginald McKenna on this course.

[5] In May 1915, Davidson gave up her teaching job to volunteer as an orderly, then as a nurse, to the wounded at the battlefront, in the Scottish Women's Hospital, at Royaumont in France.

[8] After the war, Davidson returned to her teaching career in Dornoch and was eventually promoted to Head of Subject (Modern Languages).

[9] Davidson and her friend Amaryllis Edith Hacon, who had volunteered with her at the Scottish Women's Hospital at Royaumont, took part in a 1928 tercentary Dornoch Pageant.

[12] Oversteps was the home of fellow suffragist and young widow Amaryllis Edith Hacon, who had been a society 'hostess' and friend of artists Toulouse Lautrec and Charles Condor.