 After changing her name to Mabel Lee Hankey, she was listed variously under "Lee Hankey", "Lee-Hankey", or "Hankey" in catalogues.The marriage ended in divorce after 21 years, and thereafter Hankey used the name "Mabel Emily Hankey".Mabel Lee Hankey exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Miniature Society, the Royal Society of British Artists and the Society of Women Artists from 1889 to 1897 under her maiden name (Mabel Emily Hobson), and again from 1898-1914 under the name Mabel Lee Hankey.