She was born to Edward Savage, a solicitor from Evesham, Worcestershire, and Emma Harrison of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, the latter of whom died in 1817.
[1] She continued writing and began to travel extensively, publishing over twenty books in the following decades, which were popular in both Europe and the United States.
[1] She was "a voluminous writer on religious and spiritual subjects, some beautiful hymns, and many hundreds of leaflets coming from her pen".
[3] Another described her as "a lady resident at Clifton, who has written a large number of sacred poems, and is very widely known among Christians of all denominations as the author of "Whispers in the Psalms," and many other similar productions".
It appeared in sixty-one impressions in England by 1911, bore the imprint of six American publishers and remained in print there from 1867 to 1916, and was translated into Dutch, French, German (nine editions) and Swedish.