She was the granddaughter of naval architect and yacht designer Street Clare John Byrne with whom she and her mother lived when her father (Henry) died in 1905. Her mother was Artemisia Desdemona Burtner (1868-1923) from Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America.
Belvedere School, Liverpool., Oxford, Bachelor of Arts 1916, M.A 1920. Oxford did not grant degrees to women prior to 1920, but she would have completed the academic requirements in 1916.
Born Hoylake, Cheshire, England May 31, 1895. Belvedere School, Liverpool. Somerville College, Oxford, Bachelor of Arts She was assistant tutor in English at Somerville College in 1919 and lecturer at the Army School, Rouen, France, 1918-1919.
She then taught at Morley College and University of London.
From 1920-1925 she served as coach for final honors at Oxford and from 1920-1927 she lectured at Oxford"s University Extension in London. She held a lectureship at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London, specializing in Elizabethan theater and eventually became a governor at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre.
Editor, writer and researcher in English History, art and literature from 1917.
