Hurlston worked as a journalist. She published in the monthly bicycling journal
The Wheel World, from November 1884 to June 1885, contributed to the journal
Womanhood, wrote to the
Coventry Times and Warwickshire Journal and later became "Lady editor" of the
Sheffield Weekly Telegraph. She also published a work of fiction,
Played Out and Lost, in 1885. and was a Coventry
Poor Law Guardian. She persuaded the Poor Law Union board to employ a night nurse for the infirmary in 1901. Hurlston raised issues women experienced in saving for their future pension provision, including: low wages, marriage, intermittent employment (for example needing to stop working due to the home duties of raising children or caring for other family members and seasonal fluctuations), and life expectancy. Hurlston was also an early member of the
Women’s Emancipation Union, and presented a paper to the annual conference held on 16 March 1893 titled
The Factory Work of Women in the Midlands. She was appointed secretary of the Coventry branch in 1905. == Death ==