[2][3] She was awarded a BLitt in 1928 for her thesis on the Lumiere as lais and thereafter became an editor for the Selden Society.

[5] Legge was appointed Mary Somerville research fellow in 1935, and in 1937 she became a founding member of the Anglo-Norman Text Society.

Legge's reputation as a scholar was widely acknowledged by the academic community through election to various fellowships.

[6] Legge has been described as "extremely generous and supportive to students and young colleagues", and she would often invite them to her small flat at 204 Dalkeith Road, Edinburgh, "the walls of which were covered with pictures mostly of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century artists, including George du Maurier and J.

B. Yeats; there they would be offered tea or coffee and warned to be careful with the cups because 'Oscar Wilde drank from them'.