She became tutor in English at St Hilda's College,[2] and in 1912 was appointed advisor to women students at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.
She held this position only for a year, before marrying Barker Fairley, a fellow Yorkshireman and professor of modern languages.
After the birth of Joan (Hall) and Tom, the family moved to Toronto, where they had Elizabeth, William and Ann (Schabas) where she lived until her death 1968.
She was editor from 1952 to 1956 of New Frontiers, a journal published by the Labor-Progressive Party of Canada, and two other books:[2] She moved in the same intellectual circles as historian Stanley Ryerson and poet Dorothy Livesay.
In 1949, while attending the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City, she was deported from the United States.