She was the first child of Flora Emily (born Fletcher) and Harry Le Tissier Blackwell.

In 1922 she began a marriage to an accountant named Rowland Charles Murray.

[2] The Children's Library and Crafts Movement had been founded in 1934 by two sisters, Elsie Rivett and Mary Matheson[3] The eighth branch was opened in 1942 in Katoomba.

The theatre's work was supported by loaned puppets (from William Dalziel (Bill) Nicol in Melbourne) and the Children's Library and Crafts Movement.

[5] Leading Australian puppeteers Richard Bradshaw, Norman Hetherington and John Lewis of Jeral Puppets were among those who demonstrated their skills at the theatre.