Career
She started her career as a lecturer in Bethune College (it was still part of Bethune School) in 1886. The college was separated from the school in 1888. She became the principal, thus becoming the first female head of an undergraduate academic establishment in South Asia.
She retired in 1891 because of bad health and spent the rest of her life in Dehradun.
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