[1] Bannister became the as headmistress of a girls school based in a room under the Lycett Memorial Methodist Chapel in Stepney.
Bannister studied to become a Lady Literate in Arts via the course offered by the University of St Andrews.
[3] In 1887, she was asked to join an Education Department committee looking at the "Pupil-teacher" system chaired by a senior inspector of schools, Thomas Wetherherd Sharpe.
The committee's report resulted in a policy that caused the closure of the Pupil-teacher centres, hers included, that had been established.
In 1918 the Hendon Women Citizens' Council encouraged her to become a candidate to become an Urban District Councillor.