[11] Crawford wrote over 130 articles and many books on themes from Italian art, such as Raphael and Fra Angelico, to French and Belgian and other European literature, such as Maeterlinck and D'Annunzio.

[12] Her literary writings were re-published as recently as 2010,[13] as well as those on women's rights in the workplace and on social issues,[14] with Crawford's Ideals of Charity also republished in 2010.

"[1] Unlike the prevailing view among many men of the time, including the editor of the Catholic Herald and many clergy, Crawford believed that the Christian faith teaching and working for women's enfranchisement were complementary not contradictory.

[1] Fellow Catholic feminist, Charlotte Despard, went on Ash Wednesday 1907 to join the WSPU protest at the House of Commons, which ended in violence and her arrest.

[1] Militancy and arson, window-smashing and other criminal actions for women's rights divided Catholic opinion, especially when worship was disrupted to protest forced feeding of prisoners.

[1] However the CWSS did not get the support of the Church to be called 'Catholic' and as it joined, in 1926, the International Women Suffrage Alliance, led to a change in name to St. Joan's Social and Political Alliance, with Virginia Crawford as its first Chair, urging the organisation to demand votes for women over 21 years old, on the same grounds as men.

When eventually equal franchise was achieved, the St Joan's Alliance organised a thanksgiving Mass in Westminster Cathedral and a procession including Catholic and Protestant suffragists, Millicent Fawcett and Charlotte Despard, and a two-and-a-half-year old girl representing the future.

[1] Crawford and St Joan's Alliance leaders expanded the scope of the organisation to international cooperation on women's rights.