[1] In 1919–1925, she worked on behalf of the Czechoslovak Ministry of Education in Carpathian Ruthenia and Slovakia, but malnutrition and bad living conditions led to a fatal illness.

[2] Tůmová represented the committee abroad, traveling to Stockholm, Rome, Bucharest, Budapest and London.

[1] In 1908, using a legal loophole, the Committee for Women's Suffrage nominated Tůmová in the elections for the Bohemian assembly.

[4] None of the women candidates secured a seat in the assembly, but the general public was shocked by how many votes had been cast in their favour.

[5] Her parents were the journalist, writer and politician Karel Tůma[6] and Marie Čelakovská, whose father was the poet František Čelakovský.