In the autumn of 1903, she travelled to France with her friend Dorelia McNeill (who would later become Augustus John's second wife).
During her years in Paris she met many of the leading artistic personalities of her time, including Matisse, Picasso, Brâncuși, and Rainer Maria Rilke,[REF] but the new developments in the art of her time had little effect on her, and she worked in solitude [REF].