 She was, for a time, director of appeal, Munition Workers' Welfare Committee, for the YWCA, and was national vice-president from 1914–1920 and from 1922–1928.One of her lifelong wishes was that women should be allowed to take orders and enter the Church of England.Soon after the end of the First World War she became the first woman to preach a service at a statutory service in the Church of England, at North Somercotes in Lincolnshire.