[1] In her early years at Avenue Road in Regent's Park, London she met leading members of the Pre-Raphaelite movement such as Holman Hunt, the Rossettis and Thomas Woolner.

Orme married Masson on 27 August 1853,[4] moving initially into her parents' home and sharing friends with political, artistic and literary interests.

[4] They lived first at Rosebury Crescent, then 10 Regent Terrace from 1869 to 1882 before moving to Great King Street,[6] and finally Lockharton Gardens.

[9] Orme's husband, David Masson died in 1907, and she and her daughters informed the press that no one was to write a biography or publish his letters.

[1] Her younger brother Augustus Charles Andrews became a bank clerk and his daughter Mabel Barltrop became a religious leader and prophet in Bedford.