 Brunskill retired to Bishops Tawton, near Barnstaple, Devon, England, where she died at age eighty.In Sir Thomas Beecham's first recording of "Messiah", in 1927, Brunskill was one of the soloists, along with Dora Labbette, Harold Williams, Hubert Eisdell, and Nellie Walker.In recordings of the same period, Brunskill was the contralto soloist in Felix Weingartner's recording of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.