She married stockbroker Leon Sunstein, Jr. in 1943 a year before earning a bachelor's degree in Art History in 1944 from Vassar College.
She and her husband built a sprawling modern cedar home overlooking Fairmount Park in the mid-1970s.
[citation needed] Her first book, A different face: The life of Mary Wollstonecraft (Harper & Row Co., 1975) was published in 1975.
In 1989, her second book, Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality (Little, Brown and Co., 1989) was published to critical acclaim.
[citation needed] She moved away from politics and started to enjoy other passions such as writing, collecting art, entertaining and horticulture.