 When the First World War broke out in 1914, she joined her close friends Emily Hobhouse and Olive Schreiner in wartime England, to work with conscientious objectors.However, the greater part of her work in the United Kingdom was nonetheless for the less high-profile cause of women's rights and representation.When the Russian Revolution erupted a few years later and World War I drew to a close, a great many people initially thought it the beginning of a great "emancipation of humanity".