In 1895, she was appointed as joint organizing secretary of the new Manchester and Salford Women's Trade Union Council (WTUC). She left employment in the mill that year, devoting her time initially to the trades council and another new local organisation, the Federation of Women Workers (of which she was secretary from about 1904), Around 1900, Dickenson joined the
North of England Society for Women's Suffrage (NESWS), a body linked with the
National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). She served on its executive, addressed many meetings on the subject of
women's suffrage, and took a leading part in promoting a petition of women factory workers, which she jointly presented to Parliament in 1901 when it had around 30,000 signatures. She died in 1954. ==References==