[2][3] Edgcumbe studied at the South Hampstead High School for Girls, and attended University College London specializing in psychology.

She also spent time in a hospital working with children labeled "mentally deficient" thus sparking a lasting interest in child developmental psychology.

Even as she became a highly respected member of the Clinic, she also trained in adult analysis at the Institute of Psychoanalysis in London.

Edgcumbe contributed many papers to psychoanalytic literature but is widely remembered for her book about the famed Anna Freud who studied children, like Rose, who had been evacuated during the London Blitz.

"[4]Welsh concludes her book review saying: "Rose Edgcumbe makes a powerful case for a more sophisticated understanding of the uniqueness of Anna Freud's theory and technique, and the contributions it offers for child psychoanalysis.

"[2]In the 1980s, to assist "a new post-Soviet approach to psychoanalysis," Edgcumbe helped build an alliance between the analysts at the Hampstead Clinic and their counterparts in Saint Petersburg, The exchange of learning and clinicians continued for many years after her death.