[1] Nornie and her sister Gilda were both raised in Ballarat before moving to Melbourne on the eve of World War II.

[1] She was accepted into the Ballarat Technical Art School at 15 because of her advanced skill in painting, and trained there from 1931 to 1936.

"[5] She exhibited with the Victorian Artists Society[6] and the Australian Water Color Institute in Sydney.

[7] Leveson Street Gallery listed Gude amongst the artists it represented in a 1974 issue of The Bulletin.

"[9] Nornie met her husband, fellow painter Laurence Scott Pendlebury, while studying together at the Gallery School.