[1] She studied piano, organ and composition (with Sir Granville Bantock) at the Birmingham and Midland School of Music and began her musical career as a pianist, performing piano concertos and solo pieces at Birmingham Town Hall and in Bournemouth and Harrogate.
The short orchestral tone poem Out of the Mist, commemorating the last journey of the coffin bearing the body of The Unknown Warrior across the English Channel in November 1920, was first performed in June 1921 by the Birmingham and Midland Orchestra, conducted by Granville Bantock.
She made occasional appearances in BBC radio broadcasts of recitals from Birmingham between 1925 and 1929, including a performance of works by Liszt, Chabrier, Chopin and Dohnanyi in April 1926.
[9] The manuscripts he found included the full score and orchestral parts of Out of the Mist, two pieces for violin and piano (Rhapsody, op.1 and Romance, op.
[13] The first modern performance of Out of the Mist was given at Eton School Hall by the Windsor Sinfonia, conducted by Robert Tucker, on 24 September 1988.