[4] She first taught at Walthamstow School of Art in east London, where her students included the fashion designers James Wedge, Marion Foale and Sally Tuffin, the film director Ken Russell and the musician Ian Dury.
"[1] Her students included the designers John Richmond, Richard Nott, and Soozie Jenkinson; Helen Storey, professor of science and fashion at the London College of Fashion; the BBC costume designer Jane Hartley; and the journalist Glenda Bailey.
[2][4][3] On 21 July 1948, at Battersea Register Office, she married fellow RCA graduate, Maxwell Gervase Anderson Brooker (1927–2008), who was then a second lieutenant in the Royal Army Education Corps, and later became an artist and art teacher.
[2] They had one child, Caroline Sarah Brooker (born 1956), after which they bought a house in Canonbury in Islington, north London.
[2] In her later years she lived on Canonbury Road, Islington, London, and died at University College Hospital on 2 February 2012, of bronchopneumonia and chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.