It was rescinded on the basis of adultery, as she had lived with another man, James Fleet, a meat salesman at Sheffield market, in Glasgow after the divorce nisi, which she mistakenly believed had legally ended her marriage.

She married Fleet in 1902, describing herself as a widow, and the couple lived in London and were sellers at Covent Garden market.

[1] In 1912 she visited the United States of America with her daughter, travelling out on the ocean liner Carmania and returning on the Lusitania.

[4] Despite her success as a businesswoman, James continued to work on her stall at Covent Garden Market, opening each morning having arrived on her son-in-law's watercress cart.

[6] By the end of her life, James was supplying London's restaurant trade, selling 50 tonnes of watercress a week.