She attended Miss Wheeler's school in Bromley before moving to Australia with her sister in 1886 to join her parents and brother who were living in New South Wales.
She travelled throughout Europe and sent home samples from the Englishwoman Exhibition of Arts and Handicrafts, some of which were bought by Technological Museum in Sydney.
[3] She collaborated with Mort on several other projects aimed at educating young children including a painting book and postcards.
[1] During her time with the union she equipped a tea-room; established a shop called Playways Kindergarten Toy Shop; donated the money she made from her painting book on wildflowers, lectured on the development in preschool education in other countries; established a bursary at Sydney Kindergarten and Preparatory Teachers' College;[1] and she helped to create kindergarten jobs for teachers during the depression.
[2] In 1933 she collaborated with F. H. Booth to publish Catalogue: Loan Exhibition of Antiques, Ecclesiastical Vestments and Architectural Photographs in Aid of the Kindergarten Union of N.S.W.