She worked and studied in her own time and in 1962, she became an assistant at the  Natural History Museum. She specialised in entomology at the museum and she became an assistant of R.B. Benson.
She dedicated herself to learning and working outside of traditional structures, and in 1962, she became an assistant at the Natural History Museum. Her expertise lay in entomology, a field she explored further under the mentorship of R.B. Benson.