[2] She wrote a number of books and published a magazine entitled Eleanor Kirk's Idea.

She was also a regular contributor to The Revolution and Packard's Monthly,[7] and was a member of Woman's Press Club of New York City.

[9] The promotion of Eleanor Kirk's Idea – from the Ideal to the Actual[10] stated that "... the editor of this journal has worked out some perplexing problems.

In other words, how to be happy instead of wretched, rich instead of poor, well and strong instead of sick and weak, good looking instead of haggard and ugly."

On November 18, 1849, at Warren, Rhode Island, she married Samuel Smith Child (1820–1850), and was widowed the following year.