Thomas Butterfill Hosken, the Rector of Llandefaelog Fach in Wales.
The couple had three children; her infant son and husband died of diphtheria in 1869 and 1870 respectively following which Hosken and her two daughters returned to Penryn to live with her mother.
[1] As a widow Hosken wrote two anonymous novels, Married for Money (1875) and Bitter to Sweet End (1877).
[2] In 1882 she married Bernard Barham Woodward (1854–1930), nine years her junior and the Librarian at the Natural History Museum but she died in July 1884.
[1] She is buried with her second husband Bernard Barham Woodward and his second wife in Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey.