[1] Minnie Agnes Filson was born on 3 May 1898 at Wyalong, then a gold-mining settlement.

[3] She suffered rheumatoid arthritis which was exacerbated after the birth of her only son the following year.

[6] She also wrote poems and stories for The New South Wales School Magazine from the early 1930s until at least 1954.

[14][15] Filson wrote Feet on the Ground in the 1940s, using the pseudonym Judith Grey.

[16] It was published posthumously in 2008 by her granddaughter, artist Lenore Bassan, who created a concertina book, Cornerstone, about Filson's house at Cremorne.