She was among the "constellation of critics" called by the defence in the Lady Chatterley Trial of D. H. Lawrence.
[2] She married the Cambridge literary historian Henry Stanley Bennett (1889–1972) in 1920.
[5] She was awarded the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize by the British Academy in 1963 for her book Sir Thomas Brown: His Life and Achievement.
[4] As one of the expert witnesses in the Lady Chatterley Trial, she helped counter the arguments of the prosecution by confirming Lawrence's reputation as a novelist, that the work was more than a description of sexual encounters, and that Lawrence's repeated use of ‘four-letter words’ were justified by literary intent.
[6][7] Bennett's mother had earlier been credited by Mrs Belloc Lowndes with having been "one of the very few to recognise the genius of D. H.