They were pioneers of Pinnaroo, where William and Wilton Hack had established a sheep run, but were forced off it by the drought of 1865–1867; they moved to Kensington and Golden Grove, then from 1874 to 1884 managed the "Government Farm" (later to become Belair National Park).
In 1879 she was seconded to the about-to-be-opened Advanced School for Girls in Franklin Street as deputy to Jane Stanes.
Stanes retired at the end of 1880, and Edith was appointed her successor, though a Government regulation, stipulating that a head of a school must be aged 25, had to be waived by the Minister of Education J. Langdon Parsons.
[4] She married "Sam" Hübbe ( –1900) in January 1885 and late that year she resigned from ASG, to be replaced by Madeline Rees George (c. 1851–1931).
[5] The school had a high reputation: Dorothea Forster "Dorrit" Black (a grand-daughter of John Howard Clark) and Dora Crompton (Mrs E. W. Harris), both recipients of the Tennyson medal for English; Maurice Giles (Mayor of Westminster), Bill Hayward, Dr. Darcy Cowan and Gladys Rosalind Cowan (Mrs. Essington Lewis) were among their successful students.