[5] She wrote the libretto of a 3-act comic opera, Virginia, with music by Samuel Arnold.

Virginia was based on Mary Pix's The Innocent Mistress (1697) and Aphra Behn's The Widow Ranter (1690).

"[8] Plowden published her libretto and in its preface blamed the opera's failure on changes made by John Philip Kemble.

[9] Plowden published a number of songs, including "The Coy, Blushing Sylvia".

[10] Dorothea Plowden died on 5 June 1827 in Hammersmith at the home of her son-in-law, the Earl of Dundonald.