She made her name before the Great War, writing poems in the Daily Mirror alongside Edith Sitwell – not an admirer of her work.
Her much older half-brother was the financier Ernest Terah Hooley of Risley Hall with whom she maintained a civil if frosty relationship.
other collections of poems (publication dates unknown): Basil Terah Hooley (1892–1918), [1] was born in Risley, Derby, on 8 June 1892.
A member of the University College Nottingham OTC, Major Hooley served with the 7th Bn Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment),[5] and was a tank commander in the Battles of Amiens on 18 August 1918.
[6] A memorial window to Major Basil Terah Hooley M.C., was placed in the north aisle of All Saints Church in Risley.