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 was educated privately and later studied at Toorak College. In 1928, she earned her MB/BS degree from the University of Melbourne, where she lived from 1923 at Janet Clarke Hall, which was then part of the women's residential section of Trinity College.