[1] She wrote "The Little Botanist, Or, Steps to the Attainment of Botanical Knowledge" which was published in 1835.
[2] She wrote another book in 1836 concerning a child and her mother investigating household objects.
[1][3] In the following year she argued the importance of women to education in "The Obligations of Literature to the Mothers of England".
[4] Halsted researched the life of Richard III and argued that he been unfairly treated in her 1844 book.
Historians had cast him as a bad king but he was possibly not guilty of murdering both the Duke of Clarence or the Princes in the tower.