She was privately educated and showed an early interest in geology when she attended public lectures by Charles Lapworth in Birmingham.
Hendriks graduated from the Aberystwyth University in 1919 with a BSc, later completing a PhD at Imperial College London.
[2] Little is known about her career away from the Geological Survey, but archive material indicates that she found it difficult to find paid work as a geologist.
In a letter written in 1941, held in the British Geological Survey Archive, she referred to “the absolute dearth of openings in her main subject”.
In 1958 she was awarded the Lyell Fund from the Geological Society[4] given to scientists based on the significance of their published research.