She was the founder of the Secretarial Bureau in London and the author of the book The Technique of Indexing, published in 1904.

[2][3] She first worked as a librarian in the People's Palace, London, and then studied librarianship in America for a year.

[4] One of her pupils was Theodora Bosanquet, later secretary to Henry James who had approached the Bureau for a suitable candidate.

[1] In September 1923, her article 'Indexing As A Profession for Women' appeared in Good Housekeeping magazine.

[3] She is also one of the indexer profiles featured in Hazel K. Bell's book From Flock Beds to Professionalism: A History of Index-Makers (2008).