[2] Her portrait of her father, Sir Frederick Chapman, is in the Supreme Court of New Zealand in Wellington, and other artworks are in the Hocken Collections in Dunedin.
[3][4][5] Her papers are held in the permanent collection of the National Library of New Zealand.
[9] Chapman attended private schools in Dunedin, including Overn Lodge,[10] until the family moved to Wellington due to her father's transfer to the capital.
[16][17][18][19][20] Chapman had an interest in history and recorded her father's biography, covering both his time in England and New Zealand.
[21] On 12 October 1915, at her father's house in Wellington, Chapman married lawyer and literary editor Siegfried Eichelbaum (1884–1952).