She had practiced in Melbourne where she had taught students about anaesthesia and performed ear, nose and throat operations at the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital.

Wisewould continued to wear men's clothing and she explained that doing her job and being pretty was not an easy combination.

[1] She had published her memoir, Outpost a Doctor on the Divide, the year before and it had been favourably received as it described her regard for the town and the developments in Victoria during her time there.

[3] In 1968, Wisewould made a donation to the University of Melbourne to establish the Truganini Scholarship for Aboriginal students.

[4][5] The people of Trentham paid for a plaque to be made by the artist Stanley Hammond and a memorial clock was installed in the town by a "grateful public".