[1] In 1914, on the outbreak of World War I, she and her mother moved to England, while her father served in France.

[2] This connection enabled her to access Game's papers and write Dismissal of a Premier in 1968.

[6] During World War II, Foott served with the Women's National Emergency League (WNEL) in Brisbane.

Together with another army wife, Molly Mann, she wrote We Drove the Americans based on their experiences.

[7][8][9] Her final book, Ethel and the Governors-General, is a biography of her mother, a noted poet and artist, was published in 1992.