 Her work was also exhibited at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley, England in 1924 and 1925, at the 1939 New York World's Fair and at the exhibition "A Century of Canadian Art" at the Tate in London, England.The daughter of Norman Alexander Seath and Lizetta Annie Foulds, Seath was born to a Scottish-Presbyterian family in Montreal on February 5, 1879.Her father had an unsuccessful business in importing leather goods, and also struggled with chronic illness; evidence suggests he was an alcoholic which led to the separation of her parents when she was a teenager.