[4] Soon after, her mother joined the suffrage campaigning organisation the Women's Freedom League, involving her daughters from an early age.

[4] She qualified as a secretary, working for a number of years at a hospital school run by Mrs Kate Hervey, a friend of Charlotte Despard.

In September 1941, she took over from Ethel Froud as General Secretary of the NUWT, remaining in post until the organisation disbanded in 1961.

Pierotti talked about her mother’s suffragism, including her involvement with the Women’s Freedom League, and her friendships with Teresa Billington-Greig and Charlotte Despard.

She also discussed her own involvement in the National Union of Women Teachers, and the London Children’s Care Committee.