Tupper Maynard accompanied her sister on these projects and became actively involved in the Unitarian church.

The affair caused a scandal within the Unitarian Church congregation and Tupper Maynard left for Chicago where she worked at the Hull House under Jane Addams’ supervision.

While living in Reno, Tupper Maynard taught religious courses at the University of Nevada, established a choir, and administered to patients at the Hospital for the Care of the Indigent Insane.

[7] Shortly after her landmark speech to the Assembly, Tupper Maynard provided pastoral care for Alice Hartley, who had been arrested on murder charges.

[1] The criticism prompted the Maynards to leave for Salt Lake City to serve the First Unitarian Church.

In 1913, the Maynards joined the staff of The Western Comrade, a socialist magazine closely associated with Job Harriman's Llano del Rio utopian cooperative community in the Antelope Valley on the edge of the Mojave Desert.

Harriman, a Socialist Party leader and candidate for mayor of Los Angeles, and Frank E. Wolfe, a veteran newspaperman, edited the magazine.

Tupper Maynard served as the magazine's drama critic, but she also wrote on women's suffrage and religious issues.

Many members opposed the United States entering the war, but others, like the Maynards, supported the country's involvement, which created a division within the Socialist Party.