She edited Ours: A Holiday Quarterly and contributed regularly to All the Year Round, Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, and other magazines in Britain and the United States between 1876 and 1884.

Pender Hodge Cudlip, she was among the most prolific writers of romantic fiction: well over 100 novels and short stories between 1862 and the early 20th century.

[2] Mainly educated at home, Cudlip took up writing about this time and contributed an article, "A Stroll in the Park", to the first issue of London Society.

The publisher William Tinsley published Denis Donne and Theo Leigh while Chapman & Hall released a series of her three-volume novels, including On Guard, Played Out, Walter Goring, Called to Account, The Dower House, A Passion in Tatters, Blotted Out, A Narrow Escape and Mrs.

[6] She was closely associated throughout her career with William Tinsley, who remarked in 1865, after her first two novels had been published by John Maxwell, that she was "a light-hearted girl, and a writer of bright, easy-reading fiction, of which she could write almost acres in a short time.

[9] Of her three surviving children, one married Major William Price Drury, a Royal Marine, who wrote some nautical novels at the end of the 19th and earlier part of the 20th century.

[5] Between 1876 and 1884, Cudlip was the editor of Ours: A Holiday Quarterly[6] and a regular contributor to All the Year Round, Appleton's Journal, the Broadway,[8] Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly and other magazines in Britain and the United States.