[4] She was educated at Queen's School, Chester and Somerville College, Oxford, where she took finals in Modern History in 1903 but, as a woman, at that date could not be awarded a degree.
[9] She also excavated in North Wales with Mortimer Wheeler, who had co-signed her election proposal to the Society of Antiquaries.
[10][7] Venables Taylor was Honorary Secretary of the Oxford branch of the English Folk Dance Society in 1915.
[7] Taylor had worked as an assistant to Francis Haverfield for several years, and following his death took up the editorship of the Journal of Roman Studies for a further four decades.
Although not herself an administrator, she worked and travelled widely on behalf of the Haverfield Bequest, which was to be applied to the promotion of the study of Roman Britain.