Her work was later used in Specimens of the Westmorland Dialect published by the Revd Thomas Clarke in 1887.
[2] She was born near Cartmel and went to London for 18 years where she married a Captain Wheeler and worked as a housekeeper.
She returned to Cumbria a widow where she wrote for the local press in plain English.
The conversations discuss a trip to London, the illness of George III, christenings, deaths, cockfights and other subjects including hairstyles and fashion.
[3] Wheeler died in Beetham where she had lived with her brother William in the medieval Arnside Tower.