Her parents supported their daughter joining Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1906 and she wore their badge to school, whilst living in Westbury-on-Trym, near Bristol, England, where they were had moved to by 1901.

[1] On 19 March 1913, Trevethan, a mansion house in Egham, Surrey ( whose owner Lady White was out of the country) was ruined in an arson attack and fire, and messages were found in the garden referring to suffragette slogans, including "Stop torturing our comrades in prison" and "Votes for Women".

A WSPU spokeswoman talked about the cat being away and the mice able to play, and she explained their intention to make this Act as "ridiculous as anything the Government has done to frustrate our movement".

"[1] Dr Flora Murray wrote to the Glasgow Herald that she had carried out urine tests on Kitty Marion and Beamish during their hunger strike, and found high levels of a hypnotic drug bromide which was used as a muscle relaxant (to prevent vomiting during force feeding) which the doctor said "could only be harmful", and that as Beamish was preparing her defence for the trial, she may have tried to obtain an emetic to make herself vomit the hypnotic drugs.

She then ran her own typing agency business for 21 years in the City of London to 1930, and was on the executive of the Association of Women Clerks and Secretaries.