[2] She was on the committee of the women's debating and athletic societies and when she graduated in 1899 she had a first class honours degree in English, Latin, German, and Anglo-Saxon.

A year later she showed her knowledge of Gothic, Anglo-Saxon and Middle English by becoming the first Jewish woman to gain a master's degree in England.

[2] She spent years recording the stories and dialect of the Wood family of Welsh Gypsies as a basis for Sampson's book.

[5] Yates and Agnes Marston were sent in 1907 to find the burial place of Abram Wood ("The King of the Gypsies"), which they did, at Llangelynnin; Lyster later confirmed it, with a 1799 register entry.

Yates and Marston were also successful in tracking down Matthew Wood, Sampson's important Welsh Romani source who had then been out of contact for nine years, at Betws Gwerfil Goch in 1908.

[9] In 1945, she completed nearly forty years employment at Liverpool University, and she was appointed curator of the Scott Macfie Gypsy Collection.