[1] Howell was born in Birmingham, and grew up in Handsworth; from a young age, her studies of piano and composition were encouraged by her parents.
[2] One of her earliest works, a set of six pieces for piano, was written when she was only 13 years old; they were based upon The Tales of Beatrix Potter and Howell's love of nature.
[3] Her talents were greatly acknowledged by all her teachers at RAM, and she won the Hine Prize for composition of an English Ballad in 1914.
In December of 1920, The Birmingham Festival Choral Society staged a performance of Lamia, conducted again by Wood.
Only two years after the initial success of Lamia, Howell's Danse Grotesque was performed at Buckingham Palace in November 1991.
Among other compositions by Howell, Wood conducted the ballet score Koong Shee in 1921, her piano concerto in 1923 and 1927 (with the composer herself as pianist on both occasions).
In 1940, Wood was scheduled to conduct the first performance of Three Divertissements, her last known orchestral work, but the concert was cancelled owing to The Blitz.