She received an honorary LLD from Mount Holyoke College (USA) in 1937 in recognition of her international work. In 1942, she went on a government propaganda mission to Sweden.[4]
Ashby was one of the seventeen women candidates to contest a parliamentary election at the first opportunity in the General Election of 1918. She stood for Birmingham Ladywood against Neville Chamberlain the Unionist Coalition candidate. Her slogan was A soldier's wife for Ladywood. Although she came third behind Chamberlain and the Labour candidate J.W.Kneeshaw, she forced Chamberlain to address women's issues during his campaign, one of the few candidates who tried.[citation needed]
Her papers at the Women's Library at the LSE in London contain a selection of her affectionate letters to her husband who was still in France for the early stages of the campaign. Chamberlain kept his sisters up to date with the campaign and his letters are preserved in the Cadbury Research Library at the University of Birmingham. Together they provide a unique record of the candidates' contrasting view of the election campaign.[5]
The archives of Margery Corbett Ashby are held at The Women's Library at the London School of Economics.[9]Brian Harrison recorded 6 oral history interviews with Ashby, twice in May 1974, and again in April 1975, September 1976, November 1976 and February 1977, as part of the Suffrage Interviews project, titled Oral evidence on the suffragette and suffragist movements: the Brian Harrison interviews.[10] The 1974 interviews recall her parents, the suffrage movement and her work with the NUWSS. In the 1975 interview Corbett-Ashby continues to talk about the NUWSS, as well as the formation of the Townswomen’s Guild and her membership of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance. The interview in September 1976 provides details of her role in international women’s organisations, before focusing, in November 1976, on the relationships between a number of different women’s organisations, both internationally and in the UK. Finally in February 1977 Corbett-Ashby talks about her experiences with Liberalism and political campaigns. The collection also contains an interview with Ashby’s son, Michael Ashby and daughter-in-law, Pamela Ashby, about her life.
^Sybil Oldfield, 'Eckenstein, Lina Dorina Johanna (1857–1931)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, September 2014 Profile, oxforddnb.com; retrieved 1 October 2015.
^Cullen, Pamela V., A Stranger in Blood: The Case Files on Dr John Bodkin Adams, London, Elliott & Thompson, 2006; ISBN1-904027-19-9
^Law, Cheryl. Women, A Modern Political Dictionary. I.B. Tauris, 200. ISBN1-86064-502-X
^London School of Economics and Political Science. "The Suffrage Interviews". London School of Economics and Political Science. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
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