 During a brief and unhappy marriage, she came to England in 1929; her husband Norman Ramsay was under investigation in South Africa.After touring with an opera company, and a spell as an actress, she began reading scripts for a number of managements, including that of Peter Daubeny, who was later known for organising annual 'World Theatre' Seasons.As she was gaining no financial return from scripts she was finding, in 1953 her friends and acquaintances persuaded her to open her own agency, in which they invested.