[1] Raphael abandoned her daughter, Gladys, into the care of governesses as she proceeded to train herself to be an artist.

Raphael trained in London and Paris and her 1896 nude "Wood Nymph" was exhibited at the Royal Academy.

[2] In 1902 her painting of The Winter's Tale characters Florizel and Perdita was exhibited at the Royal Academy.

[3] In 1906 she was exhibiting at the Royal Academy of Arts where one critic commented on the similarity of that year's paintings to the work of other artists.

[5] Raphael's 1923 book The Lure of the Loire had twenty illustrations[6] and in 1926 she published "The Romance of English Almshouses".