Self-employed landscape gardner by day, she trained and became a
professional woman boxer by night. She became British female boxing
champion, and successfully defended her title against British and
foreign boxers. Retired, she started a second career as boxing trainer
for younger women who followed in her footsteps.
"If I had a messed-up face, I'd be a pretty poor boxer, wouldn't I?"
(answering people's comments that her beauty was against one's idea of
what a boxer looks like)