[1] Gough was a signatory to the 1866 petition for women's suffrage, alongside her mother and sister.
[4][1] The Goughs were Quakers, it had been through the network of the Society of Friends that support for suffrage in Ireland had first been rallied.
[4] In her entry on Gough for Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Kathryn Gleadle described her "teaching of such a vocational course" as being "suggestive of her progressive ideas concerning female employment".
[1] Nonetheless she "followed all the movements for women and the great questions of the day with an interest befitting a disciple of Mary Wollstonecraft, Margaret Fuller and John Stuart Mill".
[1] The Englishwoman's Review remembered her as an "early worker for the cause of women" who "gave it [the fight for the vote] her help wherever she could".