[2] She took as job at the Egypt Exploration Society (EES) to fund her study of sculpture at the Central School of Art in London, and not because she had an interest in archaeology or Egyptology.
[1][2] After a year as the under-secretary at the EES's London base, doing odd jobs as the secretary refused to pass any real work onto her, she felt like quitting.
[3]: 11–12 Having been sent into the basement to look for a drawing that was to be included in one of the Society's publications, she found an object that would trigger her interest in archaeology, something that the previous twelve months of work had not.
[1] After returning to England during World War II, Chubb was involved in an accident that would end her archaeological career.
She was hit by a military lorry while riding a bicycle and was seriously injured; she survived the crash but lost her leg and lived the rest of her life physically disabled.
She curated her family's archive of the art and papers of her ancestor, the Bridgwater artist John Chubb (1746–1816), and wrote two articles about it in The Countryman.