[1][2] She was a pioneer translator of Meister Eckhart's German works.
[3][4] She was educated at Cheltenham Ladies College and obtained a BSc (London) in 1889 while studying there.
Following graduation, she undertook research at the Central Technical College where, in 1897, she became the first woman to be granted a DSc degree for her work on aromatic amines.
[5] In 1898 she became a lecturer at London School of Medicine for Women and also undertook research at UCL, where she published a number of papers, one of which describes her attempts to separate an unidentified element from iron residues.
[6] In 1904, she was one of nineteen signatories to a petition to the Chemical Society calling for the admission of women as Fellows.