[4] She stayed on to take Part II of the Moral Sciences Tripos and obtained a first class degree in 1902.
This was followed by another year in Cambridge, as Gilchrist fellow, before going to Birmingham to read for a teacher's higher diploma.
In 1911 Wodehouse accepted the post of Principal at a new teacher training college in Bingley, Yorkshire.
She argued against the prevailing view that teacher training was unnecessary: all you needed was an intelligent, well-educated person, who started teaching in a good school.
Having reached the age of sixty in 1940, she had intended to retire, but was persuaded to stay on for an extra two years because of the Second World War.