[1] She showed a talents for languages and after school in Melbourne she went to the UK when she was eighteen to study childhood education at the Froebel Institute.
[2] In 1911 she was back in Melbourne where she led the junior section of the Girls Grammar School[2] where Edith Morris was the headmistress.
After the war she spent two years in Paris where she took lectures at the Sorbonne and the Louvre and she established a nursery school with the help of the Rothschild Foundation.
When she arrived she found that the FKU and the director of the Kindergarten Training College, Jessie Glendinning, had disagreed and she was on sick leave.
[1] Between 1928 and 1930 she exploited the opportunity offered by a Laura Spelman Rockefeller memorial fellowship to travel the widely to discover best practise in the education of young children and, in particular, emerginging American ideas about child development.