On 13 October 1908, she became the first woman to speak in the House of Commons when she broke away from her escort into the debating chamber and made an exclamation to the assembly.

[1] Her father was Robert Williams, a Welsh architect elected to the London County Council in 1901 and who served on its housing committee.

[4] She wrote to the London Evening Standard in April 1906, relaying the anti-war policy of the 7th meeting (in Brussels) of the International Socialist Bureau, which Hardie had attended as a Labour Party delegate.

[11] She escaped from her escort, Howell Idris MP, who admitted her on the strength of her father's name, once he had led her to the peephole.

[2] She burst into the main chamber of the House of Commons where a debate was in progress on a bill regarding various issues related to children.

Travers Symons continued to work on Hardie's correspondence (which was disrupted) at his flat, at Nevill's Court off Fetter Lane.

[21] She was strongly critical of "Anglicisation": the employment, in the years around World War I, of a higher proportion of civil servants of British origin.