ABSTRACT
The era before the First World War was marked by the increased activities of the women's suffrage movement. Many of Lucy's women friends had become involved with various factions of the movement; indeed, at this time it was impossible to remain unaware of it. By the beginning of 1914 Lucy had consolidated her group of friends and her reputation as an editor and adjudicator. Still wanting to compose, or at least arrange, music, she jumped at an opportunity offered by Mary Venables to write some incidental music for The Grinding Organ by the eighteenth-century feminist and writer Maria Edgworth. Lucy continued to go to meetings of the Folk-Song Society, whose membership was buoyant after the publication of Gaelic songs. She was an active committee member, making suggestions about the future publication of the Journal, and ways of increasing membership.
