 However, his high-profile lobbying further raised the already high public awareness of the death of Alice Ayres.Emilia Aylmer Blake wrote perhaps the first poem about Ayres, titled , which she recited at a social gathering in June 1885.Sir Francis Hastings Doyle also wrote a well-received poem in honour of Ayres, as did leading social reformer and women's rights campaigner Laura Ormiston Chant.