[2] She focussed on building an atmosphere of comfort in her bookshop with furnishings, pottery, prints, colourful rugs, and flowers, and she dispensed coffee and sherry.

[1][2] As well as having general collections, Webber stocked books from small and large publishers, on a wide variety of topics, such as poetry, philosophy, psychology, cooking and gardening.

The publisher Jonathan Cape stated that the Margareta Webber Bookshop, which he had visited in 1935, was the best ordered and most attractive shop he has seen.

[6] Notable customers of the bookshop were George Bell, Arnold Shore, Vance and Nettie Palmer, Sydney Ure Smith, Mary Grant Bruce, Barry Jones and Manning Clark.

She looked marvellous in a John Heath hat made of felt with a band trimmed with little pheasant feathers."

[3] Webber and Littlejohn lived for some time in South Yarra, and their house had a substantial wine cellar.