[2] She was the niece of John Addington Symonds, the respected English poet and literary critic.
[2] Symonds made her first literary breakthrough at age 31, when she anonymously authored a short article, "Cousins German", in the Cornhill Magazine.
[3] The book dealt with the barriers faced by women writers within the publishing industry, which was then dominated by men.
[2] These include: Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century (1901), B. R. Haydon and his Friends (1905), Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century (1906), Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and her Times (1907), Mr. Pope, his Life and Times (1909), The Naked Truth (a farcical comedy in three acts, 1910), and Clothes and the Woman (a comedy in three acts, 1922).
[5] To Lord Byron: Feminine Profiles Based Upon Unpublished Letters, was left unfinished at her death, but was completed by Peter Quennell and published in 1939.