[5] Her subjects included American celebrities such as Tallulah Bankhead and Amelia Earhart, and their British equivalents, such as Madeleine Carroll and Cathleen Nesbitt.

[6] She married Ebenezer John Lecky Pike, CBE, MC (1884–1965), an officer (later a colonel) in the Grenadier Guards, on 16 April 1913.

[4][6] They had four children, the youngest of whom, David Ebenezer (born 9 June 1925), a lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards, was killed in action on 5 March 1945[4] and is buried at Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.

The middle daughter Katherine Mary Penelope married Lawrence Dundas, 3rd Marquess of Zetland.

[9] The Illustrated London News noted in 1927, that Snell "was lucky enough to have some lessons from that celebrated artist Augustus John, who was interested in her work".