In 1906 she met artist David Young Cameron in Scotland and he taught her etching.
[1] Her mother, Mary Frood was heavily involved in the suffrage cause, and in 1913 Hester and her sister Constance carried the Topsham banner on the NUWSS Great Pilgrimage.
[1] Her work was also sold by James Connell & Sons, a publisher of etchings in Glasgow and London.
[4] In 1927 Frood was married to poet Frank Gwynne-Evans and they lived on The Strand Topsham, Devon.
[5] Her work is in the V&A,[6] the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the British Museum.