However, she was strongly influenced by musical performances she attended while living there, including by the opera singers Jenny Lind and Clara Novello.
There, she began studying music, a pupil of Edmund Hart Turpin in London, learning to play the organ, which became her signature instrument.
[citation needed] Wood then began to teach music herself, becoming a certified evangelist of the Tonic sol-fa system by 1867, with her class sizes eventually swelling to over 100 members.
It was initially conceived of as a daylong set of musical competitions, coinciding with the annual exhibition of the Isle of Man Fine Arts and Industrial Guild.
[1][3][6] She also arranged the songs contained within Arthur William Moore's 1896 book Manx Ballads and Music, for which he was reliant on Wood and other individuals.