Her father, Mir Chand Ali, was a Police Inspector, and their ancestral home was in Goadi, Nadia district.

Khatun's early education began at home where she was taught the Arabic, Bengali, English, and Persian languages.

Haque encouraged his wife to continue her education, and so she enrolled at the St. Xavier's College in Calcutta where she studied Bengali and English under Professor Mairajuddin.

[2] After the death of her first husband, Moqaddesul Haque, Khatun married Maulvi Qazi Hamidullah Khan, the erstwhile Zamindar of Tetulia.

In 1884, Khatun translated a work by the Anglo-Irish poet Thomas Parnell into Bengali, which she titled Udasīn Kabbo.