[4] She next attended Ormond College at the University of Melbourne where she was joint winner of the Wyselaskie scholarship in Classical and Comparative Philology and Logic for 1905[5] and graduated with a BA and first class honours in Classical Philology.

[2] Their 1908 book, The lady of the blue beads, was favourably reviewed by "Gossip" in The Sydney Stock and Station Journal, who wrote "Taking it all round it is a ripping good book, and the Misses Rentoul are to be congratulated on their work, for it is quite original, and emphatically humorous.

"[10] She taught classics (Greek, Latin and Ancient History) at Presbyterian Ladies' College from 1913.

[11] In 1915, with her mother and father, who was then chaplain-general of the Australian Defence Forces, she contributed poems to At the Sign of the Sword.

Illustrated by her sister, Ida, its sale raised money for soldiers wounded in World War I.