Her poem "What the overseer told me" was award second prize by the South Australian’s Literary Societies' Union in September 1887.

[8] A review in The Sydney Morning Herald referred to it as a "small volume of pretty verse",[9] while the Adelaide Advertiser's critic said "all express deep feeling, and show an exalted view of the poet's calling".

"[11] In 1899 she and her husband edited the Tourist guide to China, Japan, islands and ports en route, Australia and Tasmania for the Eastern and Australian Steamship Co., Ltd.[12] Two of her poems, "Twenty Gallons of Sleep" and "A Confession", were included in Bertram Stevens’ Anthology of Australia Verse, published by Angus & Robertson in 1906.

[14] In 1909 Storrie was one of the founders of the Wattle Day League, along with the NSW Government Botanist, Joseph Maiden and Hannah E.

[17] Storrie's only son, John Bryan Kettlewell, died on 11 February 1922 at Griffith, New South Wales aged 19.