Her stay in Paris was cut short by the death of her mother in 1888 but it helped to shape her future work.
She returned to Oxford, abandoning a promising career as a professional artist, to look after her younger siblings and her father whom she cared for until his death in 1918, aged 91.
[4] Her paintings include "Nancy" exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1886, Professor Thorold Rogers (1891) which hangs in Worcester College, Oxford, the actress Lady Martin Harvey (stage- name Nell de Silva) (1889) and Jesuit Fr.
[5] She worked tirelessly to ensure its success and to promote the emancipation of women and a more prominent role for them in education and other spheres of public life, travelling extensively both in Great Britain and on the Continent.
Her success as an educator and enabler of Catholic lay women's participation in this sphere was well demonstrated during the First World War.
CWL was able to place "trained bands of women" at the disposal of both Church and state for war work.