[1] Her primary interest was the Sun and she made drawings of sunspots using a 3 inch refractor.
[2] On the 1911 census she gave her occupation as Astronomer, working for the British Astronomical Association and her address was The Plain, Foxcombe Hill, Oxford.,[3] a house with an observatory at the top of Boars Hill, Oxford.
[1] She spent a year in Shetland to study the Aurora Borealis.
[1] She travelled to New Zealand and visited the hot springs at Rotorua.
[1] She was born at the Rectory,[3] Bradfield, Berkshire on 23 January 1865,[4] the daughter of Thomas Stevens (1809-1888), Rector of Bradfield and founder of Bradfield College and Susanna Stevens née Marriott (c1824-1866),[5] daughter of Rev Robert Marriott, Rector of Cotesbach, Leicestershire.