[2] In 1944, she was the first female poet awarded the Royal Society of Canada's Lorne Pierce Medal.
Despite the accolades, the awards, and the best wishes of those who early on championed her work, and particularly Toronto professor Pelham Edgar—and those who may have played upon the fact that she was crippled by rheumatic fever—she was side-lined by modernism and professional literary critics.
She was a personal friend of the Canadian poet and civil servant Duncan Campbell Scott late in his life, and he was influential in introducing Pelham Edgar to her poems.
[7] A very complete archive of her works, manuscripts, and unpublished material is in the Special Collections of the University of Victoria.
The only major summary and analysis of her life and writing career can be found in G. Kim Blank's essay in Arc Poetry Magazine (vol 58), Summer, 2007.