 Benett took part in the WSPU's window smashing campaigns of 1911 and 1912 and was released early from her three month jail sentence in Holloway Prison in 1912 after going on hunger strike, for which action she received the Hunger Strike Medal and Holloway brooch from the WSPU.The application by the elderly Benett (she was 62 in 1912) for skipping ropes and balls for the suffragette prisoners to keep fit in Holloway Prison caused some amusement in the Home Office.A fellow inmate at this time was Kate Williams Evans on whose release Benett wrote a note to her maid Jane which reads