the British suffragette movement, frustrated by a failure to achieve equal voting rights for women, began adopting increasingly militant tactics.

Richardson joined Helen Craggs at the Women's Press shop and told her of the abuse from men (obscene remarks) and customers tearing up materials.

[2] Richardson claimed to be at the Epsom races on Derby Day, 4 June 1913, when Emily Davison jumped in front of the King's horse.

"In 1932, after forming the belief that fascism was the "only path to a 'Greater Britain,'" Richardson joined the British Union of Fascists (BUF), led by Sir Oswald Mosley.

She claimed that "I was first attracted to the Blackshirts because I saw in them the courage, the action, the loyalty, the gift of service and the ability to serve which I had known in the suffragette movement".

[13] Two other prominent suffragette leaders to attain high office in the BUF were Norah Elam[14] and Commandant Mary Sophia Allen.