the eldest of the six children of John Gardner, a member of the stock exchange, and his wife Amy Vernon Garratt.
[1] In 1899 she began to get assistance in her obsession for Polish and Poland by the writer Edmund Naganowski.
The latter was said to have been published to coincide with the return of Sienkiewicz's body from Switzerland to be encrypted in Warsaw Cathedral.
[1] With the outbreak of World War Two, which Britain entered after the German invasion of Poland, Gardner's expertise became all the more important.
Gardner's funeral was an important event that was attended by the President of Poland, Władysław Raczkiewicz.