Career
In 1874 she established the Soldier"s Institute at Portsmouth, and in 1876 toured several British towns, recruiting thousands of women to the Ladies" Association for the Care of Friendless Girls. Her biographer describes her as "instrumental" in the passing of the Industrial Schools Amendment Acting of 1880. She co-founded the White Cross Army in 1883.
The historian Frank Mort has described her as a "central figure in the feminist agitation for criminal law regulation in the 1880s".