[1] From here she appears to have begun her journalist career, writing articles for the Irish Builder, going on to eventually become its assistant editor.
[1][2] Drew was one of the founding members of the Ladies' Press Association, and campaigned for greater rights for women journalists.
[1] In 1894, she was one of the signatories of the Frances Power Cobbe memorial campaigning for greater recognition and rights for women journalists, alongside Millicent Fawcett and Jessie Boucherett.
[2] Drew wrote a number of novels, including Harry Chalgraves's legacy (1876) and The Lutanistes of St Jacobi's (1881).
In March 1885 she gave a lecture titled Dress, economic and technic at the Exhibition of Women's Industries in Bristol, which later appeared as a pamphlet.