She gathered some celebrity by writing for the Countrywoman in New South Wales magazine and talking on the radio.

Her parents, Emily (born Warcup) and Harry Nell, were both English immigrants.

[2] Two years later she began her career teaching cookery as an assistant teacher at Sydney Girls' High School.

[1] In 1936 she returned to her career after a short marriage to 75 year old widower Henry Savage.

She trained the council's demonstrators and she led their home management section from 1945 when she also began to regularly write for the Countrywoman in New South Wales.