Their only child, a son, Michael Ashby (1914-2004), was a neurologist who gave evidence as an expert witness at the 1957 trial of suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams.

[citation needed] Her papers at the Women's Library at the LSE in London contain a selection of her affectionate letters to her husband who was still in France for the early stages of the campaign.

Chamberlain kept his sisters up to date with the campaign and his letters are preserved in the Cadbury Research Library at the University of Birmingham.

[6] Finally, she stood as an independent liberal with the backing of Radical Action at the 1944 Bury St Edmunds by-election.

In the 1975 interview Corbett-Ashby continues to talk about the NUWSS, as well as the formation of the Townswomen’s Guild and her membership of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance.

Her name and picture (and those of 58 other women's suffrage supporters) are on the plinth of the statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square, London, unveiled in 2018.