[1] Pyke worked as a teacher and journalist prior to her marriage.

[2] She married Richard Dimond Pyke on 7 April 1906[3] and the couple moved to near Gympie, Queensland, where he was an accountant for railway construction.

[5][6] He had been suffering from depression and had a breakdown at the end of an investigation into the relationship between him and fellow staff members, but there was no evidence of financial mismanagement.

[7] Pyke took her children to Melbourne where she took up writing again to support the family.

[8] Pyke died in hospital at Brighton, Victoria on 31 August 1927[9] and was buried in Box Hill Cemetery.