She drew cartoons for the Women's Freedom League and she was elected to be a director of the Slaters' Restaurant chain and the Smithfield and Argentine Meat Company.

Her parents were Captain William Henry Sowdon and Matilda Louisa (born Hutton) who had married each other on the island of Jersey.

[1] In 1886, she showed her skills at drawing and writing when she published, Comic sketches and sober thoughts for the "merry and wise".

[4] She argued in "The Vote" against an anti-suffragist idea that equal rights would mean the end of chivalry.

"True Chivalry" she said, would mean men taking women as equal partners and not as playthings or toys.