[1] In 1894, Barlow enrolled at the Gallery School of Design where she was taught by Frederick McCubbin and Lindsay Bernard Hall.

[1] Elsie and Dora both showed an early interest in art, taking classes at St Kilda Town Hall when they were kids.

[1] In 1901 she married police magistrate[4] Arthur Barlow, assistant to Sir John Madden.

[1] She opened a new studio in the Dunklings Building in Melbourne in 1919, holding an exhibition of 76 paintings and 6 pen drawings in June of that year.

[1] She is acknowledged as the first woman to paint snowscapes which she would do by leaving the paper to weather outdoors while visiting her friend May Vale at Sassafras.