[1] She was educated well both in Europe and in London, and she took a strong interest in languages whilst living with one of her brothers in Oxford.
There, she met Charles Williams of Jesus College, who passed on to her his enthusiasm for Eisteddfods and the Welsh language.
Fison was an enthusiast for education and she organised evening classes for the local quarrymen.
[4] In 1883, she attended the National Eisteddfod in Cardiff and won a prize for her poem about Llandaff, which was written in English.
[5] In 1884, she was considered as a candidate for the Modern Languages chair at the University College of North Wales in Bangor, but she was not chosen.