In 1882 Queen's College, Belfast began accepting female students, allowing them to take lectures in preparation for the Royal University examinations.

[7] Everett applied for this option and in 1884 she was awarded first place in the first-year science examinations but the college refused to grant the scholarship to a woman.

1889 marked the end of Everett's university education and the beginning of a ground-breaking career in astronomy.

[3] The UK Civil Service rules that applied at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich made the employment of women very difficult.

[9] However, in 1890 William Christie, the Astronomer Royal, was interested in employing some of the highly educated women that began graduating from English universities.

At Greenwich, Everett was assigned to work in the Astrographic Department, contributing to the international Carte du Ciel star mapping project.

In addition to her work as a computer, Everett was trained to use the Observatory's new astrographic telescope (installed in 1890) to take the photographs.

Everett's job also involved measuring the plates, calculating the co-ordinates of the stars, and reducing the data for the catalogue.

[15] Everett would publish her work in the BAA's Journal, The Observatory, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and elsewhere.

[17] Everett moved for a one-year post at the observatory of Vassar College in the United States where she wrote two papers with Mary Whitney.

As a result, Everett would be unable to find regular paid work until the First World War, which gave many women an opportunity to enter the workforce.

On 21 July 1949, she died in London and would leave her library of scientific books to the Television Society.