She played her first tournament in 1892 at the Bedford Open where she was beaten in the final by Evelyn Blencowe, the same year she won the Warwickshire Championships.

In 1893 at the Suffolk Championships she reached the final but lost to Elsie Lane, the same year she also reached the finals of the East of England Lawn Tennis Championships and again lost to Elsie Lane.

[2] She also took part in the Wimbledon Championships for the first time where she reached the quarter finals before losing to Charlotte Cooper.

In 1898 she won a second Suffolk Championships title against a Miss Bush, the same year she travelled to France to take part in the Championnat international de Boulogne in Boulogne-sur-Mer, and played on clay where she won the title against Florence Gould, she would go on to win that event a further two times in 1900 and 1901 against French player Adine Masson.

She married Walter Radcliffe Horncastle on 19 March 1878 in London,[6] he died 14 in January 1908.