She exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, showing busts of prominent suffragettes Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
When the British government introduced the Cat and Mouse Act in 1913, local Suffragettes Elizabeth Robins used her 15th century farmhouse at Backsettown, near Henfield, that she shared with Octavia Wilberforce, as a retreat for suffragettes recovering from hunger strike.
It is centred around a love-affair between two fictional suffragettes, one upper-class (played in the premiere by Lesley Manville) and the other working-class (played in the premiere by Jemima Rooper).