She attended Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne, where she led the debating team and was editor of the school magazine.

[2] In 1933, her work Brass & Cymbals was published by Hutchinson, studying "the strains experienced by a Jewish immigrant family in Melbourne".

Hutchinson published four further novels – Lest We Lose Our Edens (1935), Greek Key Pattern (1935), The Red Sweet Wine (1937), and The Babe Wise (1939) – which shared in common an urban setting and ethnically diverse characters.

[1] Campbell was a prominent literary personality, making frequent appearances in newspapers and magazines contributing art criticism to both The Courier-Mail and The Advertiser.

[3] She was awarded a Commonwealth Literary Fund fellowship in 1947 to a write a novel about "a neglected Melbourne adolescent boy", however the work – titled Runt – was never published.