In 1898 she had founded Warwick Hostel in Reading to offer training to 'surplus women in the lighter branches of agriculture'.
[3][4] Students included Taki Handa, a student and instructor at Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts, Japan, who studied at Studley from 1906 to 1907 and designed a garden at Cowden Estate in Muckhart, Scotland.
The College students undertook hard practical work in its greenhouses and vegetable gardens.
[6] The plant collector, Clara Winsome Muirhead studied horticulture at Studley between 1933 and 1935.
The Museum of English Rural Life holds a collection of horticultural trophies and medals, and archival material relating to Studley College.