She abandoned research, possibly over disappointment, though Agnes Arber claimed "she came to recognize that the plant physiology of the twentieth century was developing on lines widely divergent from those on which she had been educated and that it demanded a grasp of mathematics, physics, and chemistry, which she did not possess."
Abandonou a investigación, posiblemente por decepción, aínda que Agnes Arber afirmou que " chegou a recoñecer que a fisioloxía vexetal do século XX se desenvolvía en liñas moi diverxentes de aquelas nas que tiña sido educada e que esixía unha compresión de matemática, física e química que ela non tiña."