[1] She entered the Royal College of Art in 1899 but had to leave in 1901 as she was eldest unmarried daughter and her mother was pregnant.

She had become friends with Sylvia Pankhurst and together they created an art exhibition for the Women's Social and Political Union at the Prince's Skating Club in 1909.

In 1913 the French government bought Chequered Shade which had taken the silver medal when it was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1913.

[2] When the Paris Salon restarted after the war she returned and exhibited regularly taking the gold medal once.

[3] In 1952 her husband, Thomas Cantrell Dugdale, died and she gave up their house in Suffolk and went to live in a flat in Chelsea.

During this period she lived close by at the home of the company's director, Henry Jenkinson, in Weston, Hertfordshire.