[1] In 1886 she entered the Royal Academy of Music in London where she studied singing with Edwin Holland and Alberto Randegger.

[2] Whilst at the Royal Academy of Music she was a Westmoreland Scholar[3] and was the first recipient of the Rutson Memorial Prize (July 1890).

During the 14 hours she and other survivors waited in open boats for their rescuers, she quelled the fears of the passengers and crew by singing "O, Rest in the Lord",[5] an aria from Part II of Mendelssohn's Elijah.

[6] In July 1899, Williams organised a grand charity concert at the Queen's Hall in aid of the Stella Widows and Orphan Fund.

Appearing at the concert were noted performers of the time such as the soprano Evangeline Florence, the pianist Natalia Janotha, the violinist Leonora Jackson McKim and the actor Lewis Waller.