[3] She became active in social work in a Greenwich workhouse, taught in a Sunday School, and joined the temperance Band of Hope.

Billinghurst helped organise the WSPU response in the July 1908 Haggerston by-election;[4] polling was on the day that twenty-four suffragettes were released from Holloway prison and came around the area canvassing to 'keep the Liberal out.'

The police once exploited her disability leaving her in a side street after letting her tyres down and pocketing the valves.

[3] Billinghurst was able to get closer to the House of Commons on another occasion in 1911, when police thought the better of attacking her trike with 'Votes for Women' banner during the rush.

[7] Billinghurst's first stint in Holloway Prison was for smashing a window on Henrietta Street during this campaign,[8] for which she was sentenced to one month's hard labour.

On 24 May she chained herself to the gates of Buckingham Palace and on 14 June she was dressed in white on her trike in the funeral procession for suffragette Emily Wilding Davison,[11] who was killed while reaching for the reins of the King's horse at the Epsom Derby.

[2] Billinghurst supported the Pankhursts' lead when they decided to prioritise the war over the campaign for women's rights.

[12] Billinghurst lived in the garden house of her property "Minikoi", Sunbury, Surrey (then in Middlesex), with her adopted daughter, "Beth".

[2] Her name and picture (and those of 58 other women's suffrage supporters) are on the plinth of the statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square, London, unveiled in 2018.