[1] Carline was born at Buckhurst Hill in Essex and was adopted at birth by relatives and never knew her biological parents.
[2] She was working as a housemaid when she met the artist George Francis Carline who had been commissioned to paint a portrait in the area.
The family home, first at Downshire Hill and later on Pond Street was full of art and often visiting artists and writers.
[3] An annual family painting holiday became a regular feature and it was on one such trip, to Assisi in 1920, that George Carline died suddenly.
The cubist painter André Lhote helped organise a solo exhibition of her work at the Galerie Pittoresque in Paris.