Linton was born at Beckles, Harlesdon, Middlesex and studied at the Herkomer Art School, Bushey for two years, having won a scholarship for this privilege (1907-09). She married William Evans Linton in Watford in 1911.

Her address in St Ives is listed from 1914, and then from 1916 in Bristol. She exhibited in her first Show Day in St Ives in 1914 as Miss Beckles, and thereafter as Mrs Evans Linton, and was described as a painter of horses and cattle.