She had an unusual childhood as her father died in 1901 and her mother decided to be a nun when she was five and she was placed in the convent's small school where the students wore habits and veils.
[1] Shw worked in England during the war and in 1919 she quickly met, married and left for Malaya with Major William George Warren Hastings.
[1] In 1938 she moved to a flat in Oxford where she enjoyed the diversity of people and her friends included Willie and Hans Schenk, German prisoners-of-war, and Penelope Betjeman.
[1] She returned to Europe via a job in Zambia ending up in Lisbon, then Rome and then Offenburg in the Black Forest aged 75.
[1] Aged eighty she moved to Scotland to assist her son and she died back in Oxford after a few years living with her daughter in 1993.