[2] In 1880 she entered the Novitiate of the Presentation Convent in Hobart; and in 1881 her Superior, Mother Xavier Murphy, sent her to Launceston.

In the following year she was received as a novice, and in 1883 she made her religious profession in the Church of the Apostles.

[2] In the Launceston Examiner, 17 June 1887, Reverend Charles Price of the Tamar Street Congregational Church penned a slanderous letter about the Convent.

This led the Convent to file criminal application against Price for defamatory libel.

Launceston was recognized as the Mother House with the Novitiate, and Hobart was to be a filial formation.