Education
She graduated from the University College in Leicester where she received a Bachelor of Science She married in 1936, and took up her first post in Liverpool University, where she studied for the rest of her working life. She received her Doctor of Philosophy in 1948.
The draft manuscript of the flora was completed shortly before her death and the book was published in 1991, unfortunately she died before she was able to see lieutenant
Career
Her main studies were in the ecology of the macroalgae, especially Fucus and the green algae - She began collecting information for the "Seaweeds of the British Isles" in Some specimens collected and determined by her for the Seaweed Mapping Scheme are now in the Herbarium (BEL) of the Ulster Museum in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Her obituary by Professor T.A.Norton (1987) outlines the important role she played in British post-war phycology.
