Her inclusion in "Georgian Poetry" as "the first, arguably token, woman" to appear in the series caused some ill will in the poetry politics of the time. She was preferred to other candidates who were being urged on the editor as more experienced and progressive, such as Charlotte Mew, Rose Macaulay and Edith Sitwell. Later critics have been unkind about Vaughan Williams' use of her work, speculating that he only set her poems because of their family relationship and describing her as "a wholly unexceptional poet".