She went to England for her education and in 1877 she was in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) where she married Charles Cyrus Armitage.

She had bought a Caligraph 2 when she arrived in Australia[2] and this was a model that featured a button for every upper and lower case letter.

[3] In 1888 the Ladies' Type-writing Association, which she had started, was given a special prize at the Exhibition of Women's Industries.

[5] The National Council of Women was formed in 1896 and she was elected their founding treasurer[6] and in the following year she was their secretary.

[1] In 1900 she was one of the signatories with Louisa Macdonald, Helen McMillan, Rose Scott, Zara B. Aronson (and others) of a letter sent by the National Council of Women.