 It is also clear that St. Anne's lodge was extinct at the time of her writing about it.Crocker’s leadership of this exclusively female Masonic lodge stands as an alternative to historical frameworks that emphasize the formal political exclusion and public silencing of women in the development of republican, liberal political practice in the West.As Co-Freemasonry spread in England from 1902, some members became alarmed by decisions taken by the governing body in Paris.