[1] She wrote "History of England"[2] the second volume of the "Historical Course for Schools", which was devised and edited by Edward Freeman,[3] with whom she corresponded regularly.
[5][6] Along with her sister, Elizabeth Perronet Thompson, she provided 15,000 quotations for the dictionary.
She and her sister, Elizabeth Thompson (1857–1930) lived at Beaconsfield Lodge in Bath.
Elizabeth published a historical novel The Veil of Liberty, A Tale of the Girondins (1895) under her penname "Peronne" and A Dragoon's Wife, A Romance of the 17th Century (1907) under her own name.
[9] Edith Thompson is a major character in Pip Williams' novel The Dictionary of Lost Words, where she mentors a fictional goddaughter who works on the Oxford English Dictionary.