[2] She met prominent snooker and billiards players, including Joe Davis and Clark McConachy, when they played exhibition matches at her father's hotel.

[6] The journalist and author Donald Trelford speculated that McConachy was "too gallant (or too stubborn or too shy)" to request the cue's return.

Teresa Billington-Greig, who chaired the initial meeting, became acting honorary secretary, and Carpenter was among the other members appointed to the WBA Council.

[11] Carpenter resigned from the Association in February 1934, as she was not granted permission to play in the Junior Amateur Championship organised by The Billiard Player magazine.

[18] Following the cessation of the women's professional snooker and billiards championships after 1950, Carpenter retired from competitive play, as the reigning champion in both events, and later moved to Mudeford.

[1] By 1958, her parents had retired from managing their hotel, and Carpenter rarely played cue sports, but had taken up ballroom dancing.

[21][22][23] She was also the first woman to play trick shots on a full-size billiards table as part of exhibition matches.

[22] She married Jimmy Seeor in 1939 and the following year gave birth to a son,[1][2] who was present for her 1950 Women's Professional Billiards victory.

[1] Writing in 1974, former men's professional snooker champion Horace Lindrum described Carpenter as "A beautiful stylist, [who] did much to foster the women's amateur game.