In addition to their rigorous training schedule, the girls spent the rest of their time at the estate engaging in relaxing activities such as outdoor sports, plain air painting, and gardening.

Edith Hayllar’s paintings, unlike other female artists at the time, did not challenge the terms of "feminine dependency" but rather played an integral role in shaping the representation of women and domesticity together by painting scenes of women in domestic interiors with their families.

Hayllar’s painting style emphasized symmetry and orderliness, showing women running a well-organized household and clearly delineating a woman’s role at any given time in their lives.

[5] Hayllar had paintings shown almost every year from the 1880s–1890s at the Institute for Oil Painters and Dudley’s Gallery.

Of all her paintings, Edith Hayllar’s most famous is a piece, entitled A Summer Shower from 1883, showing a young man with a badminton racket courting a woman reclining in a chair next to him and was called "one of the most charming genre scenes of the nineteenth century.