 Marguerite was educated at Mrs Strickland’s school, Armadale, and Presbyterian Ladies’ College, East Melbourne, before attending drawing classes at the National Gallery school of drawing with Frederick McCubbin.Academic training developed her natural talent and she became a capable and inventive draughtswoman.On 16 June 1923 at the Independent Church, Collins Street, she married with Congregational forms Thomas Orrock George Mahood, an engineer.