Born in Gloucestershire and educated at Cheltenham and Clifton High School, Minnie trained at the Gloucester School of Art and the Central School of Arts and Crafts, Geneva. Also an embroiderer and pewter worker, she was formerly an art mistress in Dundee, then in Truro and Penzance.

Whybrow includes this artist in the time period 1890-1930, amongst short biographies.