[3] Together the couple conducted a number of businesses, including the press and the newspaper they founded, The Newcastle Chronicle.

She was part of a cultured circle of friends which included James Robertson, poet Robert Carr, engraver Thomas Bewick, local newspaper-owner Gilbert Gray, poet John Cunningham, and salonnière Elizabeth Montagu.

The earliest example extant of A New Grammar: Being the Most Easy Guide to Speaking and Writing the English Language Properly and Correctly is a copy of the second, 1750 edition, published in Newcastle.

She criticizes grammarians' traditional application of Latinate rules to the English vernacular, and was the first to suggest the pronoun he might be used for both sexes.

In contrast to the more weighty Grammar, The Pleasing Instructor is an anthology of short pieces from contemporary journals such as The Spectator, and well-known writers such as Elizabeth Carter.

[4] In her introduction, Fisher argues for better education for girls and women, though she does not, she writes, "mean to recommend reading at the expense of sewing.