[2][3] Carson, who had two older sisters,[1] was born on 30 September 1902 in Thornton Heath, Surrey, England.

[4][better source needed] Her father, Arthur Louis Carson, died four years later and her mother, Charlotte Winstanley Stratford, brought up the family in Dorset.

[1] A dramatised version was premiered at Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1935, produced by Herbert Prentice,[b][5] and performed in the Westminster Theatre, in London's West End, starring Anne Firth in 1937.

[1][6][7] According to a 2025 article in The Observer, Crooked Cross “charts the growing disaffection of a group of German youth who feel lost and ignored, and so turn towards a new authoritarian leader” and “predicted the scale of the Nazi threat”.

She died of breast cancer on 21 June 1941, aged 38,[4][2] at a nursing home in Leeds.