Aeta Lamb planted a tree to celebrate her imprisonment. The picture was taken by Colonel Linley Blathwayt Lamb joined the
Women's Social and Political Union in 1906. She was noted to be very eloquent and she wrote some of
Christabel Pankhurst's speeches while working in its information department, even being said to be the 'real brains' behind some of Pankhurst's best known rhetoric. In July she assisted with by-election campaign in North West Staffordshire in July alongside
Annie Kenney and in August worked in
Bury St Edmunds alongside
Emmeline Pankhurst. while working with Kenney in
Bristol. Lamb was arrested with
Patricia Woodlock and Emily Sproson and over 50 others, reported in the
Evening Express. In January 1908, Lamb was again assisting Emmeline Pankhurst, this time at the Mid-Devon by-election, and then at the
Herefordshire (Ross) by election. From there she was one of the main organisers the first meeting of the
Bath branch of the WSPU in April 1908. It was here also that she got to know the
Blathwayt family of
Eagle House,
Batheaston, which they operated as a home of refuge for suffragettes between 1908 and 1912. In 1911, Lamb was one of the last WSPU members to go there, planting a commemorative tree in their arboretum which they had named the 'Suffragette's Rest', before the Blathwayts withdrew their support due to the growing militancy of the organisation. In April 1908 Lamb supported
Mary Gawthorpe in the Kincardineshire by-election campaign, after which she went on to help in the
Montrose Burghs,
Dundee and
Stirling Burghs by-election campaigns in May, and then another in
Pudsey in June 1908. One of her last duties was to draw up a list of suffragette prisoners for use in the campaign - by the time of its completion it contained over 1,200 documents relevant to the arrest of over 450 suffragettes. Lamb remained loyal to the WSPU throughout its campaign, despite developing increasing misgivings of its policies of violent protest over the course of her time with them. ==Later career and death==