She worked briefly in Liverpool at Blackburne House School and as secretary to Rosalind Howard, Countess of Carlisle leaving both jobs in 1890.
Jealousy of her achievements, her support for the suffrage movement and a dispute with the vice-chancellor, Isambard Owen, are suggested by her biographer as possible factors.
[2] However, Hansard, records that she and French language Professor Gerothwohl had published "grave reflections upon the administration of the university" and these and the resignation of Prof. T. R. Glover, D.Litt.
[3] Hodgson completed her career in Yorkshire where she was vice principal at the Ripon and Wakefield and Bradford Diocesan Training College until her retirement to Bristol.
This comment (and her book in general) received a damning review[5] in the admittedly purposely combative Calendar of Modern Letters; it is signed "BH" and was therefore probably written by Bertram Higgins.