 In 1907 she attended the course in Fine Art at the Slade School of Art, London.She returned to Dublin in 1908 and, with great difficulty, tried to earn a living as a caricaturist, publishing her cartoons in "The Shanachie", "Irish Life", "Meadowstreet" and "The Irish Review", which was edited from 1913 by Joseph Plunkett.She considered emigrating but gave up the idea.