 During the First World War, she was appointed by Sir Edward Ward as Director of the Camps Library, started on 1 October 1914, and was responsible for stocking the libraries for troops on active duty in France.Her title was Honorary Director of the Camps Library, for which service she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1918 – on Ward's recommendation.She died at her home in Chelsea from bronchial pneumonia on 19 June 1935, aged 66.