 She attended a country school until thirteen years old, then the De Soto High School, the Kirksville Normal School, Soper School of Oratory in Chicago, and schools of that kind in Boston and New York.In New York she assisted the principal of the American Academy of Dramatic Art, and since then she visited every year in Boston and Chicago for the purpose of getting new ideas.She moved from DeSoto to St. Louis in 1900.