In 1908 she came to notice when she interrupted Lord Carrington as he arrived in Manchester to give him a copy of the newspaper Votes for Women.

She was also campaigning that month in Greater Manchester at Altringham and organising the collecting stewards for a suffragist meeting in Heaton Park.

Her father, annoyingly, paid the fine claiming that his daughter (a later proven arsonist) was just in the bad company of "hired women".

[3] Key activists from the suffragette movement were invited to stay at the Blathwayt's house and to plant a tree to celebrate their work, a prison sentence or to mark having been on hunger strike.

The diarists profile is like Mary Blathwayt of Batheaston who had a younger brother named William who worked in Germany.