 Over the next fifteen years she learnt Mandarin, studied Chinese culture, lectured, recited Chinese poetry and acted in England and France before visiting the United States for the first time in 1934 on tour.Her biographer, Angela Woollacott, notes that the Australian expatriate community in London embraced her, despite the aims of Australia's own White Australia Policy.In 1936 she made her only trip to China, where she lectured to elite audiences, in Mandarin.