 Pleydell-Bouverie was the youngest of three children growing up in a seventeenth century stately home surrounded by blue-and-white and "famille verte" Chinese porcelain.It was her childhood holidays playing on a muddy beach at Weston-super-Mare with her siblings where she was first introduced to clay.Whilst living in London in the 1920s her interest in pottery began when Pleydell-Bouverie visited Roger Fry at his Omega Workshops and saw examples of his work, which led to her attending the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London to study pottery under Dora Billington.