She was educated privately and later attended Toorak College. She earned her MB/BS in 1928 from the University of Melbourne, where she was resident from 1923 at Janet Clarke Hall, at that time still the women's residential wing of Trinity College.
She received private instruction and later attended Toorak College. She obtained her MB/BS in 1928 from the University of Melbourne, where she resided from 1923 at Janet Clarke Hall, which was then a women’s residence within Trinity College.