Her father was a soldier and her life is not recorded until she married a solicitor named Thomas Potter Burbury on 9 August 1841.
She had an early success with a book written for young people titled "How to Spend a Week Happily".
She wrote for Sharpe's London Magazine[2] In 1849 Frank Smedley arranged for a book to be produced titled "Seven Tales by Seven Authors".
The authors included Smedley, Burbury and her friend George Payne Rainsford James.
[3] She wrote a sequel to "How to Spend a Week Happily" titled, "Mabel Trevor," which was published in the early 1850s[2] as well as her best novel "Florence Sackville".