[3] She then moved to Scotland, where she met the music educator John Curwen, a great advocate of the tonic sol-fa method for singing, which she adapted for the piano.
[citation needed] A typical publication that indicates her subject and approach was Mrs. Curwen's Pianoforte Method (The Child Pianist) Being a Practical Course of the Elements of Music, which ran to at least 20 editions with a separate volume The Teacher's Guide.
[5] She wrote in a preface to the 16th edition, published in 1913, that she had based her system on a similar work by her father-in-law, John Curwen, for singing classes.
Instructions for lessons were contained in the Teacher's Guide but omitted from the edition for the child student.
[6] In 2008, a company called Pomona Press republished the title Mrs. Curwen's Pianoforte Method.