[5] Her teachers there and elsewhere included Frederick Cowen, Woldemar Bargiel, Oscar Beringer, and (in Berlin) Karl Klindworth.
She also taught harmony at the Maida Vale High School for Girls in London.
While conducting the orchestra for the play Beethoven's Romance at the Royalty Theatre on 1 December 1894, the sleeve of her muslin dress was set alight by one of the lamps on her music desk.
A member of the orchestra managed to extinguish it quickly with an opera cloak, which may have saved her life.
[6][7] As a composer she wrote solo piano music, a Barcarolle in G minor and the two Chateaux en Espagne for clarinet and piano,[8][9] and songs, including settings of The Years at the Spring (Browning, performed at The Proms in 1909),[10] Northern Song (Lang), Sunset (Zangwill), Snow May Drift (Heine), and Song of the Jewish Soldier (Alice Lucas).