 Although a Conservative, she supported the women's suffrage cause as a member of the Women's Unionist Association, chairing local chapters of the group at Markinch and in Leslie.She also opposed socialist initiatives and the proposed reform of Irish Home Rule.Perhaps her finest achievement in service to others was nursing soldiers during World War I, first at Leslie House, a wing of which she converted into a hospital for troops invalided out of the conflict, and then at the Coulter Hospital in London.