Her father was a noted linguist and numismatist, who was a professor of classics and history at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and her grandfather the Welsh-born mathematician and astronomer Lewis Evans (1755–1827).
[1][4][2] The family moved to Britwell, and in 1829 to Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, where her father became headmaster of Dixie Grammar School.
As she once remarked, "If anyone expects to find poetry without susceptibility, let him look at the sky for a rainbow without rain.
"[1] Her works included sonnets, a verse drama called Maurice Clifton, and two ballads, "Sir Ralph Duguay" and "Orinda".
This included a memorial preface by Anne Thackeray Ritchie, in which she described her as a "diffident woman, who... unconsciously touched and influenced us all by her intense sincerity of heart and purpose.