There was a constant stream of visitors such as Eric Gill, Robert Browning, Stevenson, Henley, Coventry Patmore, George Meredith, Francis Thompson, Stephen Phillips, W. B. Yeats, G. K. Chesterton, Shane Leslie, Sir Ronald Storrs and others more or less renowned.
Her brother Francis was the driving force of The Nonesuch Press, with whom in the pre-war days she made homemade books on the kitchen table, dyeing with onion skins and typing her verse to be stitched by hand into the pages.
She was an early supporter of D. H. Lawrence, offering practical help in the way of typing his manuscripts and accommodation, by way of a room in her home at Greatham.
In 1920 she engineered the publishing of Moby Dick as the first American novel in the Oxford World's Classics series in England[2] and wrote the introduction to that volume.
She had a large circle of literary friends and correspondents, including Katherine Mansfield, Compton Mackenzie and T. H. White.