 Despite being a social reformer, Violet Markham was strongly opposed to women being given the vote.She addressed an anti-suffrage meeting at the Royal Albert Hall on 28 February 1912 (publicised in a letter to "The Spectator" published on 10 February 1912) which had been organised by the National League for Opposing Woman Suffrage.Markham told the audience that the views of the women's suffrage movement "fly in the face of hard facts and natural law."