She was said to be the highest paid woman when she was editing Good Housekeeping and being William Randolph Hearst's European head.

She was educated at North London Collegiate School for Girls and her mother took her to get a job as a typist on the magazine Country Life.

In 1917 she was offered a salary of ten pounds a week to become the editor of Nash's Magazine for William Randolph Hearst organisation.

[1] Head was chosen to create a version of the American Good Housekeeping magazine for the British market.

She would deputise for Hearst making decisions on his behalf about not just editing but also buying for him St Donat's Castle, expensive art objects and three giraffes for his zoo.